Kissinger, Daniel B.Watson, Joshua C.2023-04-212023-04-212005https://hdl.handle.net/2097/43160Student-athletes often represent a highly visible, yet decidedly misunderstood population on college and university campuses. In the general student population, the combination of multiple stressors often leads students to seek professional counseling services. Unfortunately, student-athletes, who are often faced with a multitude of psychosocial stressors germane to balancing athletic and academic responsibilities, seldom seek out professional counseling services. However, when they do seek services, the authors posited that an understanding of the construct of the therapeutic working alliance and the application of the working alliance model (Bordin, 1979) offered a useful template for fostering positive counseling outcomes with student-athletes. In this article, the major elements of this construct and model were presented along with a discussion and implications for its application to a college or university student-athlete population.This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/modelsacademic supportText