Contemporary athlete welfare frameworks rely heavily upon accurate disclosure. Psychological support services, medical intervention, safeguarding procedures, recovery monitoring, and developmental planning all depend, to varying degrees, upon athletes communicating distress, uncertainty, overload, injury, or interpersonal difficulty with sufficient accuracy for appropriate intervention to occur. Within many elite environments, however, disclosure reliability is frequently ass

The Caduceus Framework is an applied transition and safeguarding framework that has been developed through my field observation, trauma-informed practice, athlete welfare research, and cross-system transition work. The framework draws on the historical functions associated with the Caduceus — negotiation, boundaries, communication, exchange, and safe passage — as an organising structure for examining movement across care, sport, culture, and identity systems. This series is b