Interventions for Improving the Negative Consequences of a Staff Cancer Role within Varsity Team Sport Contexts

Abstract Although the cancer role is becoming increasingly studied within sports psychology research, there is a dearth of applied interventions for improving the negative consequences caused by the cancer role. Using insights from a previous pilot project drawing on Canadian interuniversity athletes’ stories of a staff cancer and recommendations from athlete maltreatment literature, we provide MPCs with varying degrees of proactive interventions to empower coaches to modify their own behaviors to signify growth in their coaching practices and reactive interventions to be used if a cancer’s influence is adversely impacting athletes.