Citations
"Athletic career - multiyear voluntary activity aimed at achieving athletic peak (individual) in 1 or multiple sports events."
"Normative transitions - predictable challenges"
"Non-normative transitions- unpredictable challenges"
"Successful transition is a result of effective coping with the transition demands based on effective usage of the transition resources and avoidance/overcoming of the transition barriers."
"Crisis-transition is an alternative transition outcome that means inability of the athlete to cope with the transition demands on his/her own and implies searching for psychological assistance/intervention."
"Career Assistance Programs are integrated and comprehensive combinations of workshops, seminars, educational modules, individual counselling and/or a referral network providing individualized and/or group-oriented multidisciplinary support services to athletes with regard to their athletic participation, developmental and lifestyle issues, and educational and vocational development (Wylleman, Theeboom, and Lavallee, 2004)."
External References
Stambulova, N. (2010). Professional culture of career assistance to athletes: A look through contrasting lenses of career metaphors. In Ryba T., Schinke R., and Tenenbaum G. (Eds.) The cultural turn in sport psychology. Morgantown, WV: FIT. p. 285-314.
Wylleman, P. and Lavallee, D. (2004). A developmental perspective on transitions faced by athletes. In Weiss M. (Ed.), Developmental sport and exercise psychology: A lifespan perspective. Morgantown, WV: FIT. p. 507-527.