Guidelines for Counsellors Working with People of African Ancestry in a Sport Context

Abstract

The objective this article is to describe five practice guidelines for counsellors working with people of African ancestry in a sport context. The practice guidelines pertain to counsellor training, counsellor perspectives, counsellor services, counsellor ethics and counsellor research. These practice guidelines can assist counsellors working with people of African ancestry in a sport context to focus on both personal development through sport and performance enhancement in sport. This will enable athletes not just to view sport in terms of their win-lose record, but to also strive for excellence in sport by becoming better people. In becoming better people athletes can contribute to building up Africa and her people.

Keywords:

• counsellor
• sport
• African ancestry
• developmental perspective
• psychopathology
• cognitive-behaviour perspective
• multi-level classification system for spoil psychology (MCS-SP)
• systemic narrative perspective