Basic Certificate for Sport psychology

The Dutch Association for Sport Psychology (Vereniging voor Sportpsychologie in Nederland, VSPN) issues the socalled Basic Certificate for Sport Psychology (BASP). Obtaining this certificate entitles you the full membership of the VSPN and qualifies for the Postgraduate programme to Praktijksportpsycholoog (Amsterdam).

Psychology students will meet the BASP requirements, once you successfully complete:

• Master's internship and master's thesis based on sport psychological research: 24 to 30 ec
• SOW-PSB3BC30E Human Motor Control: 4 ec
• SOW-PSB3BE20E Sport Psychology: 4 ec
• SOW-PSMWOH15 Work, Sport and Health (master's specialisation Work, Organisation and Health): 6 ec.

You can either choose these courses as domain electives or as free electives.

Your research proposal for the internship and thesis needs approval by the domain co-ordinator and by the BASP co-ordinator.

Should you have a hard time to take a sport psychological internship and thesis in your domain, then there is an additional opportunity to conduct a literature review literatuuronderzoek (16 EC) to help you obtain enough relevant EC's to meet the BASP criteria.

Contact for BASP

Prof Ruud Meulenbroek, r.meulenbroek@psych.ru.nl