The Applied Sport and Exercise Practitioner

PART I

Context and environment

2 The development and purpose of standards in sport and exercise

NATHAN REEVES AND ANDY MILES

3 Working contexts: The reality of being in the field

LAURA CAREY

4 Professional ethics: Navigating the challenging moments

EMILY RYALL, ANDY BORRIE AND PAULA WATSON

PART II

Being a professional practitioner

5 Getting to know you: Understanding identity and role

CHARLOTTE CHANDLER, ANDY HOOTON AND MARTIN TURNER

6 Getting to know your team: Inter-disciplinary working with others

EMMA COWLEY, JENNIFER JAMES AND JONTY NORRIS

7 Getting to know your client: The importance of 'really listening'

PAULA WATSON, REBECCA LEVETT AND CHRIS MARSHALL

8 Organisational culture in sports: Perspectives, traps, and entry points for cultural practitioners

NIELS FEDDERSEN, MICHAEL MCDOUGALL AND JOHN DOWNEY

9 Reflective practice: The core of professional and personal learning

EMMA HUNTLEY, LAURA JOHNSON AND SAM NAPIER

PART III

Tales from the field

10 'Relentless, emotional and amazing': Working in high-performance sport

ANDY BORRIE AND LAURA BORRIE

11 'A challenging but rewarding path': Working with disability populations

LOUISE FERRANDINO, SIMON BRILEY AND TOM O'BRIEN

12 'We are all scousers now': Integrating ethnically diverse communities through sport and physical activity (The Toxteth FireFit Hub)

MARTIN COOPER, SHARIF YUSUF, ANTHONY WILLIAMS AND DAVE SCOTT

13 'Balancing the psychosocial and the physiological': The day-to-day realities of cardiac rehabilitation

ANTHONY CROZIER AND JOHN BUCKLEY

14 'It isn't all child's play': Working with children and young people

ZOE KNOWLES, HANNAH GOSS, CARA SHEARER AND FREDDIE TURNER

PART IV

Reflections

15 Effectiveness in practice: Principles of evaluation

CHARLOTTE CHANDLER AND TIM DONOVAN

16 Looking across the lines: Common views and shared challenges

ANDY HOOTON, PAULA WATSON, ANDY MILES, CHARLOTTE CHANDLER AND ANDY BORRIE