Feddersen, NB, Champ, F, Sæther, SA and Littlewood, M (2022) Confidentiality and surveillance challenges for psychologists working in men’s football academies in England. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology. ISSN 1041-3200

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Abstract

We examine challenges to confidentiality experienced by sports psychologists in men’s English football academies. Sixteen psychologists, six women, and ten men working in English football academies participated in two semi-structured interviews. We carried out a reflexive thematic analysis after each round of interviews and developed two themes: (1) challenges to client-psychologist confidentiality; (2) a context of normalized surveillance. First, participants explained that several staff members (e.g., coaches, managers, and support staff) would use covert and subtle ways to make psychologists break confidentiality. This included trying to get the psychologist to “slip up.” Second, the football academy context was characterized by widespread surveillance of players. It was evident that it is common practice for clubs to gather objective and self-report data creating extreme transparency in the young people’s lives. We also propose two research-based solutions allowing psychologists to handle these issues.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Sport Sciences; 1106 Human Movement and Sports Sciences; 1701 Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure > GV561 Sports
Divisions:	Sport and Exercise Sciences
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
SWORD Depositor:	A Symplectic
Date Deposited:	01 Dec 2022 12:12
Last Modified:	01 Dec 2022 12:15
DOI or ID number:	10.1080/10413200.2022.2134506
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/18184

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