Thank you for those who have expressed interest in wanting to be a part of the Collaborative Research Team, which has been finalized. Please check back at a later date for more information pertaining to future research projects. It is encouraged to add yourself to The COPE Center’s mailing list if you’d like to be updated when new opportunities arise.
The COPE Center has formed a collaborative research team to support the refinement, validation, and applied use of the Sport Injury–Illness and Rehabilitation–Recovery Intake (SIRI) Protocol, which is a comprehensive two-phase intake assessment tool originally developed by Dr. Erdner as informed by the revised stress-injury model (Williams & Andersen, 1998), the integrated model of psychological response to sport injury (Wiese-Bjornstal et al., 1998), the biopsychosocial model of sport injury rehabilitation (Brewer et al., 2002), the multilevel model of sport injury (Wadey et al., 2018), with infspiration from the Performance Interview Guide (Aoyagi et al., 2017). to enhance the intake process for sport and performance psychology practitioners working with injured-ill clients that are navigating rehabilitation-recovery settings. This project is designed to:
Advance scholarly and applied understanding of injured-ill clients across sport, performance, and health contexts
Strengthen the psychometric, clinical, and practical utility by offering an intake questionnaire to better conceptualize injured-ill client cases.
Foster student and early-career researcher development in applied research, ethics, and client-centered assessment
The SIRI-Protocol has received grant funding from the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) to advance this tool. Data collection will begin September 2026 - December 2026. Preliminary results from the study will be presented at the 42nd AASP 2027 Annual conference in Denver, Colorado.
If you are a sport and performance psychology practitioner who works with injured-ill clients, and meet all the noted eligibility criteria for this study, please navigate to the “Research” drop down menu above and visit the “SIRI-Protocol” tab; you may show your interest in participating via the linked Interest Form.