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Ethics and social engagement into sport psychology

The contemporary sport and the roll and function of the professionals involved in this context analysis require a comprehension of the complex structure that made the sportive spectacle become the most important contemporary sociocultural phenomenon. Among many important questions in this discussion there is the limit for the performance search and the relation between the public and private dimension in the life of the sportive spectacle protagonists. The purpose of this essay is to discuss the ethic questions involved in the Sport Psychology actuation, pointing the necessity of overcoming the comprehension of Sport Psychology as an specialty that objectives only performance and victory.

Sport Psychology; Social Sport Psychology; Contemporary sport; Culture and sport


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