Qualitätsentwicklung in der Sportpsychologie – 50 Jahre im Dienste des Schweizer Sports

Sport psychology in Switzerland looks back on a history of over 50 years. Founded in 1969 as a loose working group, the Swiss Association for Sport Psychology SASP became an association in 1987. The focus was on supporting athletes in their performance, but also on questions of rehabilitation and health sport. Reports about dubious practices of self-proclaimed mental coaches brought the question of high-quality psychological counselling into focus. An adaptation of Donabedian’s quality management model (1966) and the analysis of the required competences led to the development of a curriculum and in 2005 to the creation of the specialist title for sport psychology by the FSP. Continuing education courses are offered by the Universities of Bern and Lausanne. Graduates are qualified to work independently and competently in sport psychology with individuals and groups in the field of sport and physical activity. Today, sport psychologists perform numerous tasks in the support system of Swiss sport. With its broad range of services in a wide variety of sport areas, sport psychology will continue to be able to generate added value for practitioners and make an important contr