Introduction: The purpose of this study was to define mental coaching and to identify the application of mental coaching in sport. There are confusions in sport psychological interventions between Psychological skills training and counseling. Psychological skills training enhances the athlete's performance by controlling their various psychological factors through sport psychological interventions. But psychological skills training focuses on improving performance without considering the athlete's individual development and self realization. Mental coaching consists of psychological skills training, counseling and mentoring. And mental coaching should enhance performance by psychological skills training, promote personal growth by counseling, and promote the athlete's self-realization by mentoring. Limitations of Psychological intervention: As an application of sport psychology. counseling and psychological skills training is still valid. However, conflicts of psychological skills training, absence of present methods for sport psychological intervention fruits, prejudice for sport psychological intervention in sports fields, limited access routes for the application of sport psychological intervention for athletes, and separation between the sports psychologist and the coach creates difficulties in the application of sports psychology. Conclusion: Mental coaching, in harmony with psychological skills training, counseling and mentoring becomes more effective via integration between the sports psychologist and coach.

I. 서 론
 Ⅱ. 스포츠심리학계의 현장지원
 Ⅲ. 스포츠심리학 현장적용의 한계
 Ⅳ. 한계 너머의 멘탈코칭
 Ⅴ. 멘탈코칭의 도입
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• 윤영길(한국체육대학교 사회체육학과) | Young-Kil Yun (Department of Community Sports, Korea National Sport University) Corresponding author