Pre-Congress Workshop for the International Congress on Sports Science and Yoga: Mission Olympic ... more Pre-Congress Workshop for the International Congress on Sports Science and Yoga: Mission Olympic - 2028 Gwalior, India 29-31st January 2017
The general aim of this study was to describe some of the discursive practices for managing quali... more The general aim of this study was to describe some of the discursive practices for managing qualitative research interviews. The specific aim was to examine the form, function, and location of simultaneous talk in a qualitative research interview. A conversation analysis (cf., Sacks, 1992) of 266 lines of transcribed talk from New Zealand Interview 2 (van den Berg, Wetherell, & Houtkoop-Steenstra, 2003) on race relations in New Zealand during the 1980s was completed. First, simultaneous talk was identified in the transcript. Second, acknowledgement tokens and continuers (cf., Gardner, 2001) that were produced in overlap with other talk were excluded. Third, the remaining instances were categorised using Ferguson’s (1977) interruptions taxonomy and Jefferson’s (1984) notes on the interactional properties at overlap onset. Simultaneous talk occurs at or near a transition relevant place where speaker change can legitimately occur. Judging a break in the continuity of the first speaker’...
The general aim of this study was to describe some of the discursive practices for managing quali... more The general aim of this study was to describe some of the discursive practices for managing qualitative research interviews. The specific aim was to examine the form, function, and location of response tokens in a qualitative research interview. A conversation analysis (cf., Sacks, 1992) of 266 lines of transcribed talk from New Zealand Interview 2 (van den Berg, Wetherell, & Houtkoop-Steenstra, 2003) on race relations in New Zealand during the 1980s was completed. First, response tokens were identified in the transcript using Gardner’s taxonomy (Gardner, 2001). Second, the frequency was calculated for different classes of response tokens. Third, how the interviewer and the interviewee used response tokens to maintain or change speakership, maintain or change topic, and formulate answers were examined. Response tokens are a pervasive feature in qualitative research interviews accounting for 11.47% of all words spoken. The interviewer produced 60.7% and the respondent produced 39.3% ...
Burnout is typically associated with professional athletes and other elite performers. However re... more Burnout is typically associated with professional athletes and other elite performers. However research has shown that those at lower levels of performance may also be at risk of burnout. One particular group is talented adolescent athletes. These are athletes who usually excel in a number of sports and have yet to specialise in any one sport. Such athletes inevitably take on the challenge of balancing the demands of training, competition, academic endeavours, and being an ‘adolescent’. The very nature of many competitive sports requires athletes to push themselves to physical and psychological limits in the pursuit of sporting excellence. Such demands become a particular concern when they exceed coping resources. Given that coping resources and problem-solving skills are not fully developed in adolescents and that adolescence itself is a time of significant physical and psychological change, adolescent athletes may be at significant risk of burnout as they strive to reach the elite ranks. This paper presents Athlete Burnout Questionnaire data taken from a sample of 321 Australian adolescence athletes and argues that a re-evaluation of how burnout is conceptualised with this population may be required.
This paper examines how confidentiality is discussed in real-life consultations. The Australian P... more This paper examines how confidentiality is discussed in real-life consultations. The Australian Psychological Society Code of Ethics states that clients are to be informed about the legal limits of confidentiality prior to engaging in psychological counselling and repeated when required. Training in confidentially is also an accreditation requirement for Honours, Masters, and Professional Doctorate programs. However little research has examined how limits of confidentiality are introduced and negotiated within real-life consultations. An initial consultation between a client and a provisionally registered psychologist was used as the data for this paper. Discursive analysis revealed that whilst the psychologist complied with her professional obligation by informing the client of the limits of confidentially before counselling began, the way in which the psychologist enacted this made it difficult for the client to ask questions or seek clarification about these limits. Further, when...
This case study focuses on the practicalities of undertaking real-world psychology research. By r... more This case study focuses on the practicalities of undertaking real-world psychology research. By real world, we mean observing people as they live their everyday lives and exploring how they draw upon psychological concepts to do this. The everyday that has captured our attention is the psychology consultation as a rich data source for explicating the professional practice of psychology. We have moved away from studying orthodox psychological topics using traditional research paradigms, and moved towards studying real-world psychology as it occurs in natural settings using Conversational Analysis. It is our view that this alternative approach to researching professional practices, using the psychology consultation as data, provides insights into professional work that is not possible using other methods. It allows us to look at the interactional skillfulness by which psychologists and clients work together to enact behavior change. Our aim is therefore to entice beginning researchers to look to the psychology consultation as a potential research site, to consider alternate ways of researching, and be open to different ways of understanding the professional practice of psychology.
Conversation analysis (CA) research with children is the study of children’s talk-in-interaction.... more Conversation analysis (CA) research with children is the study of children’s talk-in-interaction. It focuses on the social interactions that children engage in, and like CA research with adults, analytic attention is on explicating the features of these interactions. How children learn to interact with others, how they use talk to accomplish social actions, how they make sense of their worlds, and how they meaningfully participate in social interactions are key aims. Given that childhood is one of the most heavily regulated developmental periods, CA research with children can demonstrate how children actively participate in their own childhood, negotiating, challenging, and navigating complex interactional encounters. Children, here we mean zero-to-eighteen-year-olds, have traditionally been positioned as somehow “incomplete.” Successful development and progress to adulthood means that a state of completeness has been obtained. Developmental research focuses heavily on children who are not successfully progressing and includes difficulties with language acquisition, learning, development, or mental health. Children’s interactional practices as the focal point of research have largely been overlooked. Preference for cognitive explanations of behavior and development has resulted in treating what children say as reflective of their developing cognitive processes. By treating language as socially constitutive of childhood experiences, where such experiences are produced through children’s active participation in interactions, development and childhood become situated as emergent, local, and in situ interactional accomplishments. There is no one underpinning framework that permeates CA with research children. Researchers have applied CA methodology to children’s interactions in varied ways. Theoretically, CA research with children takes either more of an ethnomethodological or developmental position, although this is somewhat of an artificial categorization. Developmentally focused research is more concerned with using CA to explicate children’s language acquisition and the development of language skills. Here, emphasis is on the child and their interactional skills. Ethnomethodologically focused research is more interested in the sense making practices that children adopt and the practical social accomplishments that children achieve in their interactions. Prominence is given to how children interact with others in various interactional settings and how this interaction displays understandings of childhood. Categorizing CA research with children is fraught with difficulties, as many categorizations are possible. One way is to distinguish by theoretical underpinnings, development, or ethnomethodological. Another is to categorize by the substantive area being researched, and this is the position that has been adopted in this work.
There is little critical consideration of the discursive features of recordings of therapy. This ... more There is little critical consideration of the discursive features of recordings of therapy. This paper moves beyond a focus on what is being done by the therapist to the client and focuses on how psychological practice is discursively co-produced, and how power and ideological assumptions about psychology practice are oriented to and made relevant by therapist and client.
In this paper we revisit the question, how can sport psychology best be illustrated? There have b... more In this paper we revisit the question, how can sport psychology best be illustrated? There have been many interesting works produced in recent years that have displayed conversations between sport psychologists and athletes. In our view there are problems in analysing and commenting on transcripts that are not based on real-life psychological practice. Many works have not considered the importance of recording and representing real-life practice, and so have glossed over the original question, how can sport psychology best be illustrated? This has lessened what they can contribute to understanding how sport psychology is practiced. To illustrate this point, we present a short extract of real-life therapy talk that centres on the therapist’s question, have you seen a psychologist before? The audio recording of this psychologist-client talk was presented in our conference presentation, and we display transcripts of this therapy talk in three different forms in this paper: a Jeffersoni...
This paper describes how we approached the problem of providing sport psychology knowledge and sk... more This paper describes how we approached the problem of providing sport psychology knowledge and skills to adolescent athletes living in the sparsely populated and geographically large New England and North West Region of New South Wales. We display two approaches that we have used to solve this problem from 2000-2002 and 2003-2006, respectively. We recommend sport innovations be constructed using conceptual, technical, and service delivery system advances, and be built using local and imported materials.
How do you provide sport science and sport medicine services to young athletes living in the larg... more How do you provide sport science and sport medicine services to young athletes living in the large and sparsely populated New England and North West Region of New South Wales? In the most economical and cost effective manner as possible. However this response typically means minimizing the program costs while tacitly lowering the expectations of what rural, regional, and remote athletes might gain from such a program. In other words, short-changing country athletes compared to what sport science and sport medicine offers their city-cousins living in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne. Putting aside any moral objections to this, country athletes have made a significant contribution to Australia’s sporting heritage and as such we can not afford to under service this talent pool.
This presentation describes how we have constructed sport psychology as mental equipment for adol... more This presentation describes how we have constructed sport psychology as mental equipment for adolescent athletes living in northwest New South Wales (NSW). Using local materials readily found in Moree, Gunnedah, Tenterfield and other towns in northwest NSW, we have been able to introduce adolescent athletes living in regional, rural, and remote NSW to basic sport psychology concepts using mental equipment packs. These low-tech, low-cost, and local resources contrast sharply with the high-tech, high-cost, and imported physical equipment required for most sports. We produced the first mental equipment packs for $1.06 in 2003, and we have continued to use them with athletes and their families and friends via the Northern Inland Academy of Sport (NIAS) Regional Athlete Coach Education (RACE) program. This high-cost/low-cost contrast is an important asset in constructing sport psychology as accessible to regional, rural, and remote athletes, and their families and communities. We underst...
The general aim of this study was to describe some of the discursive practices for managing quali... more The general aim of this study was to describe some of the discursive practices for managing qualitative research interviews. The specific aim was to examine the form, function, and location of questions in a qualitative research interview. A conversation analysis (cf., Sacks, 1992) of 266 lines of transcribed talk from New Zealand Interview 2 (van den Berg, Wetherell, & Houtkoop-Steenstra, 2003) on race relations in New Zealand during the 1980s was completed. First, question-like utterances were identified in the transcript. Second, morphosyntactic clauses were categorised using Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech, & Svartik’s (1985) taxonomy. Third, the talk immediately before, during, and after each question turn was examined to see whether it was: (a) located on completion of a previous action; (b) marked by lexical elements and/or prosody; (c) repaired or abandoned; and (d) elicited a type-conforming response from the recipient. There was no direct association between the syntactic form and...
The general aim of this study was to describe some of the discursive practices for managing quali... more The general aim of this study was to describe some of the discursive practices for managing qualitative research interviews. The specific aim was to examine the form, function, and location of so-prefaced utterances in a qualitative research interview. A conversation analysis (cf., Sacks, 1992) of 266 lines of transcribed talk from New Zealand Interview 2 (van den Berg, Wetherell, & Houtkoop-Steenstra, 2003) on race relations in New Zealand during the 1980s was completed. First, so-prefaced turn construction units were identified in the transcript. Second, talk immediately before, during, and after each so-prefaced turn construction unit was examined to see whether it: (a) was located during an on-going action or upon completion of an action; (b) marked inferential connections in the talk or launched a new course of action; and (c) was part of an upshot, gist, stand-alone “So”, turn-change, or topic-change device. Three actions were observed, the first of which involved the intervie...
The present study examined the instructional video, Virtual Sport Psychology: Three Approaches to... more The present study examined the instructional video, Virtual Sport Psychology: Three Approaches to Sport Psychology Consulting (Brewer, Van Raalte, & Petitpas, 2000) in which three distinguished sport psychologists display how they work with the same athlete-client. The study focused on unexpected variability in closing the reason for the sport psychology consultation sequences. Conversation analysis of the so-prefaced talk showed the incoming speaker beginning after, during, and before the current speaker’s so. It showed the sport psychologists monitoring the turn, sharing the turn, and interrupting and closing the turn, respectively. The results showed that 'so' marks a potential turn and topic transition location within the participation framework of this talk that is open to negotiation. Hearers take up the option but display three different shifts in responsibility to complete the reason for the consultation sequence. These findings have some pedagogical implications for...
... a starting point for updating SASI Psyche might be to consider contemporary athletes as a ...... more ... a starting point for updating SASI Psyche might be to consider contemporary athletes as a ... is shaped by the social conditions faced by particular cohorts of young people (Wyn ... This does not mean treating bio-developmental and psychosocial processes as irrelevant but adopting ...
The general aim of this research was to describe some of the discursive practices for managing qu... more The general aim of this research was to describe some of the discursive practices for managing qualitative research interviews. The specific aim was to examine some regularities in the sequential organisation of a qualitative research interview that the participants use to make this talk orderly, meaningful, and accountable. A conversation analysis (cf., Sacks, 1992) of 266 lines of transcribed talk from New Zealand Interview 2 (van den Berg, Wetherell, & Houtkoop-Steenstra, 2003) on racism and race relations in New Zealand during the 1980’s was completed. The cumulative findings of four empirical studies of question formats, response tokens, simultaneous talk, and so-prefaced utterances conducted by Australian psychology honours students will be presented. Participants organise their co-presence in New Zealand Interview 2 using the normative rules for turntaking, repair, and adjacency pairs. Thus self and other are the basic parties to the conversation; the turn construction unit is the basic metric; and projected completion points are the local basis for speaker-change. Research interviewing is motile, locally involved, and so requires close cooperation between the participants. The interviewer and the respondent use social rules derived from ordinary, everyday conversations to manage questioning, answering, and other practical actions accomplished in the qualitative research interview. Thus, fine-grained analysis of actual talk shows that interviews are socially organised and culturally informed. This finding conflicts with conventional, neo-positive assumptions of a neutral interviewer and a passive respondent who is a vessel of answers that is common in social psychology.
This paper presents a case study that describes how the Northern Inland Academy of Sport (NIAS) h... more This paper presents a case study that describes how the Northern Inland Academy of Sport (NIAS) has provided sport physiotherapy, sport psychology, and sport nutrition to young athletes living throughout the vast north-west region of New South Wales (NSW). NIAS is a NSW regional academy that commenced in November 1992. Each year, it offers 150-180 scholarships to talented adolescent athletes aged between 14-18 years of age. These 12-month scholarships provide these country athletes with specialist sport skills training; introductory sport science, sport medicine and sport media training; specialist physiological testing; and sport competition including participation in the multi-sport Inter-Academy Games. But how do you provide sport science and sport medicine services to 150-180 adolescent athletes spread across over 98,000 km2 of north-west NSW? Prior to 2003, NIAS approached this in an orthodox manner and used a centralised sport-specific program. This situated sport science and ...
Pre-Congress Workshop for the International Congress on Sports Science and Yoga: Mission Olympic ... more Pre-Congress Workshop for the International Congress on Sports Science and Yoga: Mission Olympic - 2028 Gwalior, India 29-31st January 2017
The general aim of this study was to describe some of the discursive practices for managing quali... more The general aim of this study was to describe some of the discursive practices for managing qualitative research interviews. The specific aim was to examine the form, function, and location of simultaneous talk in a qualitative research interview. A conversation analysis (cf., Sacks, 1992) of 266 lines of transcribed talk from New Zealand Interview 2 (van den Berg, Wetherell, & Houtkoop-Steenstra, 2003) on race relations in New Zealand during the 1980s was completed. First, simultaneous talk was identified in the transcript. Second, acknowledgement tokens and continuers (cf., Gardner, 2001) that were produced in overlap with other talk were excluded. Third, the remaining instances were categorised using Ferguson’s (1977) interruptions taxonomy and Jefferson’s (1984) notes on the interactional properties at overlap onset. Simultaneous talk occurs at or near a transition relevant place where speaker change can legitimately occur. Judging a break in the continuity of the first speaker’...
The general aim of this study was to describe some of the discursive practices for managing quali... more The general aim of this study was to describe some of the discursive practices for managing qualitative research interviews. The specific aim was to examine the form, function, and location of response tokens in a qualitative research interview. A conversation analysis (cf., Sacks, 1992) of 266 lines of transcribed talk from New Zealand Interview 2 (van den Berg, Wetherell, & Houtkoop-Steenstra, 2003) on race relations in New Zealand during the 1980s was completed. First, response tokens were identified in the transcript using Gardner’s taxonomy (Gardner, 2001). Second, the frequency was calculated for different classes of response tokens. Third, how the interviewer and the interviewee used response tokens to maintain or change speakership, maintain or change topic, and formulate answers were examined. Response tokens are a pervasive feature in qualitative research interviews accounting for 11.47% of all words spoken. The interviewer produced 60.7% and the respondent produced 39.3% ...
Burnout is typically associated with professional athletes and other elite performers. However re... more Burnout is typically associated with professional athletes and other elite performers. However research has shown that those at lower levels of performance may also be at risk of burnout. One particular group is talented adolescent athletes. These are athletes who usually excel in a number of sports and have yet to specialise in any one sport. Such athletes inevitably take on the challenge of balancing the demands of training, competition, academic endeavours, and being an ‘adolescent’. The very nature of many competitive sports requires athletes to push themselves to physical and psychological limits in the pursuit of sporting excellence. Such demands become a particular concern when they exceed coping resources. Given that coping resources and problem-solving skills are not fully developed in adolescents and that adolescence itself is a time of significant physical and psychological change, adolescent athletes may be at significant risk of burnout as they strive to reach the elite ranks. This paper presents Athlete Burnout Questionnaire data taken from a sample of 321 Australian adolescence athletes and argues that a re-evaluation of how burnout is conceptualised with this population may be required.
This paper examines how confidentiality is discussed in real-life consultations. The Australian P... more This paper examines how confidentiality is discussed in real-life consultations. The Australian Psychological Society Code of Ethics states that clients are to be informed about the legal limits of confidentiality prior to engaging in psychological counselling and repeated when required. Training in confidentially is also an accreditation requirement for Honours, Masters, and Professional Doctorate programs. However little research has examined how limits of confidentiality are introduced and negotiated within real-life consultations. An initial consultation between a client and a provisionally registered psychologist was used as the data for this paper. Discursive analysis revealed that whilst the psychologist complied with her professional obligation by informing the client of the limits of confidentially before counselling began, the way in which the psychologist enacted this made it difficult for the client to ask questions or seek clarification about these limits. Further, when...
This case study focuses on the practicalities of undertaking real-world psychology research. By r... more This case study focuses on the practicalities of undertaking real-world psychology research. By real world, we mean observing people as they live their everyday lives and exploring how they draw upon psychological concepts to do this. The everyday that has captured our attention is the psychology consultation as a rich data source for explicating the professional practice of psychology. We have moved away from studying orthodox psychological topics using traditional research paradigms, and moved towards studying real-world psychology as it occurs in natural settings using Conversational Analysis. It is our view that this alternative approach to researching professional practices, using the psychology consultation as data, provides insights into professional work that is not possible using other methods. It allows us to look at the interactional skillfulness by which psychologists and clients work together to enact behavior change. Our aim is therefore to entice beginning researchers to look to the psychology consultation as a potential research site, to consider alternate ways of researching, and be open to different ways of understanding the professional practice of psychology.
Conversation analysis (CA) research with children is the study of children’s talk-in-interaction.... more Conversation analysis (CA) research with children is the study of children’s talk-in-interaction. It focuses on the social interactions that children engage in, and like CA research with adults, analytic attention is on explicating the features of these interactions. How children learn to interact with others, how they use talk to accomplish social actions, how they make sense of their worlds, and how they meaningfully participate in social interactions are key aims. Given that childhood is one of the most heavily regulated developmental periods, CA research with children can demonstrate how children actively participate in their own childhood, negotiating, challenging, and navigating complex interactional encounters. Children, here we mean zero-to-eighteen-year-olds, have traditionally been positioned as somehow “incomplete.” Successful development and progress to adulthood means that a state of completeness has been obtained. Developmental research focuses heavily on children who are not successfully progressing and includes difficulties with language acquisition, learning, development, or mental health. Children’s interactional practices as the focal point of research have largely been overlooked. Preference for cognitive explanations of behavior and development has resulted in treating what children say as reflective of their developing cognitive processes. By treating language as socially constitutive of childhood experiences, where such experiences are produced through children’s active participation in interactions, development and childhood become situated as emergent, local, and in situ interactional accomplishments. There is no one underpinning framework that permeates CA with research children. Researchers have applied CA methodology to children’s interactions in varied ways. Theoretically, CA research with children takes either more of an ethnomethodological or developmental position, although this is somewhat of an artificial categorization. Developmentally focused research is more concerned with using CA to explicate children’s language acquisition and the development of language skills. Here, emphasis is on the child and their interactional skills. Ethnomethodologically focused research is more interested in the sense making practices that children adopt and the practical social accomplishments that children achieve in their interactions. Prominence is given to how children interact with others in various interactional settings and how this interaction displays understandings of childhood. Categorizing CA research with children is fraught with difficulties, as many categorizations are possible. One way is to distinguish by theoretical underpinnings, development, or ethnomethodological. Another is to categorize by the substantive area being researched, and this is the position that has been adopted in this work.
There is little critical consideration of the discursive features of recordings of therapy. This ... more There is little critical consideration of the discursive features of recordings of therapy. This paper moves beyond a focus on what is being done by the therapist to the client and focuses on how psychological practice is discursively co-produced, and how power and ideological assumptions about psychology practice are oriented to and made relevant by therapist and client.
In this paper we revisit the question, how can sport psychology best be illustrated? There have b... more In this paper we revisit the question, how can sport psychology best be illustrated? There have been many interesting works produced in recent years that have displayed conversations between sport psychologists and athletes. In our view there are problems in analysing and commenting on transcripts that are not based on real-life psychological practice. Many works have not considered the importance of recording and representing real-life practice, and so have glossed over the original question, how can sport psychology best be illustrated? This has lessened what they can contribute to understanding how sport psychology is practiced. To illustrate this point, we present a short extract of real-life therapy talk that centres on the therapist’s question, have you seen a psychologist before? The audio recording of this psychologist-client talk was presented in our conference presentation, and we display transcripts of this therapy talk in three different forms in this paper: a Jeffersoni...
This paper describes how we approached the problem of providing sport psychology knowledge and sk... more This paper describes how we approached the problem of providing sport psychology knowledge and skills to adolescent athletes living in the sparsely populated and geographically large New England and North West Region of New South Wales. We display two approaches that we have used to solve this problem from 2000-2002 and 2003-2006, respectively. We recommend sport innovations be constructed using conceptual, technical, and service delivery system advances, and be built using local and imported materials.
How do you provide sport science and sport medicine services to young athletes living in the larg... more How do you provide sport science and sport medicine services to young athletes living in the large and sparsely populated New England and North West Region of New South Wales? In the most economical and cost effective manner as possible. However this response typically means minimizing the program costs while tacitly lowering the expectations of what rural, regional, and remote athletes might gain from such a program. In other words, short-changing country athletes compared to what sport science and sport medicine offers their city-cousins living in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne. Putting aside any moral objections to this, country athletes have made a significant contribution to Australia’s sporting heritage and as such we can not afford to under service this talent pool.
This presentation describes how we have constructed sport psychology as mental equipment for adol... more This presentation describes how we have constructed sport psychology as mental equipment for adolescent athletes living in northwest New South Wales (NSW). Using local materials readily found in Moree, Gunnedah, Tenterfield and other towns in northwest NSW, we have been able to introduce adolescent athletes living in regional, rural, and remote NSW to basic sport psychology concepts using mental equipment packs. These low-tech, low-cost, and local resources contrast sharply with the high-tech, high-cost, and imported physical equipment required for most sports. We produced the first mental equipment packs for $1.06 in 2003, and we have continued to use them with athletes and their families and friends via the Northern Inland Academy of Sport (NIAS) Regional Athlete Coach Education (RACE) program. This high-cost/low-cost contrast is an important asset in constructing sport psychology as accessible to regional, rural, and remote athletes, and their families and communities. We underst...
The general aim of this study was to describe some of the discursive practices for managing quali... more The general aim of this study was to describe some of the discursive practices for managing qualitative research interviews. The specific aim was to examine the form, function, and location of questions in a qualitative research interview. A conversation analysis (cf., Sacks, 1992) of 266 lines of transcribed talk from New Zealand Interview 2 (van den Berg, Wetherell, & Houtkoop-Steenstra, 2003) on race relations in New Zealand during the 1980s was completed. First, question-like utterances were identified in the transcript. Second, morphosyntactic clauses were categorised using Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech, & Svartik’s (1985) taxonomy. Third, the talk immediately before, during, and after each question turn was examined to see whether it was: (a) located on completion of a previous action; (b) marked by lexical elements and/or prosody; (c) repaired or abandoned; and (d) elicited a type-conforming response from the recipient. There was no direct association between the syntactic form and...
The general aim of this study was to describe some of the discursive practices for managing quali... more The general aim of this study was to describe some of the discursive practices for managing qualitative research interviews. The specific aim was to examine the form, function, and location of so-prefaced utterances in a qualitative research interview. A conversation analysis (cf., Sacks, 1992) of 266 lines of transcribed talk from New Zealand Interview 2 (van den Berg, Wetherell, & Houtkoop-Steenstra, 2003) on race relations in New Zealand during the 1980s was completed. First, so-prefaced turn construction units were identified in the transcript. Second, talk immediately before, during, and after each so-prefaced turn construction unit was examined to see whether it: (a) was located during an on-going action or upon completion of an action; (b) marked inferential connections in the talk or launched a new course of action; and (c) was part of an upshot, gist, stand-alone “So”, turn-change, or topic-change device. Three actions were observed, the first of which involved the intervie...
The present study examined the instructional video, Virtual Sport Psychology: Three Approaches to... more The present study examined the instructional video, Virtual Sport Psychology: Three Approaches to Sport Psychology Consulting (Brewer, Van Raalte, & Petitpas, 2000) in which three distinguished sport psychologists display how they work with the same athlete-client. The study focused on unexpected variability in closing the reason for the sport psychology consultation sequences. Conversation analysis of the so-prefaced talk showed the incoming speaker beginning after, during, and before the current speaker’s so. It showed the sport psychologists monitoring the turn, sharing the turn, and interrupting and closing the turn, respectively. The results showed that 'so' marks a potential turn and topic transition location within the participation framework of this talk that is open to negotiation. Hearers take up the option but display three different shifts in responsibility to complete the reason for the consultation sequence. These findings have some pedagogical implications for...
... a starting point for updating SASI Psyche might be to consider contemporary athletes as a ...... more ... a starting point for updating SASI Psyche might be to consider contemporary athletes as a ... is shaped by the social conditions faced by particular cohorts of young people (Wyn ... This does not mean treating bio-developmental and psychosocial processes as irrelevant but adopting ...
The general aim of this research was to describe some of the discursive practices for managing qu... more The general aim of this research was to describe some of the discursive practices for managing qualitative research interviews. The specific aim was to examine some regularities in the sequential organisation of a qualitative research interview that the participants use to make this talk orderly, meaningful, and accountable. A conversation analysis (cf., Sacks, 1992) of 266 lines of transcribed talk from New Zealand Interview 2 (van den Berg, Wetherell, & Houtkoop-Steenstra, 2003) on racism and race relations in New Zealand during the 1980’s was completed. The cumulative findings of four empirical studies of question formats, response tokens, simultaneous talk, and so-prefaced utterances conducted by Australian psychology honours students will be presented. Participants organise their co-presence in New Zealand Interview 2 using the normative rules for turntaking, repair, and adjacency pairs. Thus self and other are the basic parties to the conversation; the turn construction unit is the basic metric; and projected completion points are the local basis for speaker-change. Research interviewing is motile, locally involved, and so requires close cooperation between the participants. The interviewer and the respondent use social rules derived from ordinary, everyday conversations to manage questioning, answering, and other practical actions accomplished in the qualitative research interview. Thus, fine-grained analysis of actual talk shows that interviews are socially organised and culturally informed. This finding conflicts with conventional, neo-positive assumptions of a neutral interviewer and a passive respondent who is a vessel of answers that is common in social psychology.
This paper presents a case study that describes how the Northern Inland Academy of Sport (NIAS) h... more This paper presents a case study that describes how the Northern Inland Academy of Sport (NIAS) has provided sport physiotherapy, sport psychology, and sport nutrition to young athletes living throughout the vast north-west region of New South Wales (NSW). NIAS is a NSW regional academy that commenced in November 1992. Each year, it offers 150-180 scholarships to talented adolescent athletes aged between 14-18 years of age. These 12-month scholarships provide these country athletes with specialist sport skills training; introductory sport science, sport medicine and sport media training; specialist physiological testing; and sport competition including participation in the multi-sport Inter-Academy Games. But how do you provide sport science and sport medicine services to 150-180 adolescent athletes spread across over 98,000 km2 of north-west NSW? Prior to 2003, NIAS approached this in an orthodox manner and used a centralised sport-specific program. This situated sport science and ...
Pre-Congress Workshop for the International Congress on Sports Science and Yoga: Mission Olympic ... more Pre-Congress Workshop for the International Congress on Sports Science and Yoga: Mission Olympic - 2028
Burnout is typically associated with professional athletes and other elite performers. However r... more Burnout is typically associated with professional athletes and other elite performers. However research has shown that those at lower levels of performance may also be at risk of burnout. One particular group is talented adolescent athletes. These are athletes who usually excel in a number of sports and have yet to specialise in any one sport. Such athletes inevitably take on the challenge of balancing the demands of training, competition, academic endeavours, and being an ‘adolescent’. The very nature of many competitive sports requires athletes to push themselves to physical and psychological limits in the pursuit of sporting excellence. Such demands become a particular concern when they exceed coping resources. Given that coping resources and problem-solving skills are not fully developed in adolescents and that adolescence itself is a time of significant physical and psychological change, adolescent athletes may be at significant risk of burnout as they strive to reach the elite ranks. This paper presents Athlete Burnout Questionnaire data taken from a sample of 321 Australian adolescence athletes and argues that a re-evaluation of how burnout is conceptualised with this population may be required.
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