스포츠 카운셀링의 慨定念立에 관한 硏究Ⅰ

Counseling in modern times is not so much the treatment of a client with overt problems as the prevention of covert phenomena or maladjustment and the encouragement of a client`s self-realization. To keep in touch with this current tendency of counseling, our country should be soon ready for a rather new scientific approach, that is, spirts counseling. this research aimed at establishing its conception and promoting its development. Being one of the sports powers which held the Olympics a few years ago, Korea may grow further with the introduction of sports counseling which promises, among others, the prevention of players` slump as well as the promoton of their skills and personality growth. Despite a great enthusiasm I had at the start, I had hard time finding the literature concerned. After all, my definition of the term sports counseling will be `A psychological method between clients of a sports team or players and a specially-trained counselor with rich experience, which aims at safer mental conditions and more improved skills` Since the study on this part has been rare, I hope for successive studies for providing theoretical base of sports counseling with which players can improve their talents and attain mental growth. Also, I expect some experimental research to verify the effect of sports counseling