ABSTRACT
Training to become a sport and exercise psychologist in both the United Kingdom (UK) and Australia was traditionally housed in departments of sport and exercise science, where the focus was often on the completion of research theses, with little, if any, formalized supervised applied experience offered. In both countries, however, within the last 20 years there has been a “psychologicalization” of applied training, and professional organizations have established formal training routes and national chartering and registration schemes. The first and second sections of this chapter address the formal training and supervision routes to chartered status and registration (as psychologists and supervisors of psychologists) in both countries. Perhaps due to the similarities in training and supervision, parallels exist across both countries in the ways trainees change with supervision experience, and some of these are presented in the third section.
