ABSTRACT
Continuing education is an all-encompassing term used to describe a wide range of post-tertiary education and/or post-professional accreditation/registration activities and opportunities. The terms continuing education and continuing professional development are often used interchangeably, but can refer to two distinctly different approaches. Continued professional development includes organized continuing education components but requires that the sport psychology practitioner focus and prioritize learning experiences in a way that continuing typically does not. Continuing professional development can be further subdivided into both formal and informal learning-and-development experiences. Formal learning experiences include workshops, seminars, conferences, and continuing education courses. Informal learning and development experiences include reading, learning from peer consultations, and contributing to discussion groups in the sport psychology field.
