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Since publication of European dual career (DC) guidelines (2012), athletes’ DC topic has been flourishing in Europe. This is visible in growing amount and quality of publications, several European DC projects and review papers demonstrating that within the European DC discourse research, practice, and policy inform and support each other. Major body of DC knowledge is summarized in recent FEPSAC Position Statement on athletes’ DCs in the European context (Stambulova et al., 2024). This paper also promotes understanding of athletes’ DC path as their striving for DC excellence defined as “sustaining a healthy, successful and long-lasting career in sport in combination with education and/or work” (p. 5). In the DC journey, excellence is not seen as a destination to reach, but a process of striving for, in which DC athletes might need psychological support.
In this webinar, I will depart from conceptualization of a scientist practitioner with related roles and provide a brief overview of DC research useful to consider in applied work with DC athletes. Then I will focus on specific features of supporting student-athletes depending on their situatedness in the DC path (e.g., DC transitions, scenarios) and share my knowledge about resources the practitioners can use (e.g., frameworks, exercises, informative websites). In particular, I would like to discuss applied potentials of two recent frameworks: the dual career assistance model and transition environment conceptualization and two related models.
