Full Description
Achieve the mindset of a superior athlete with Sport Psychology Essentials! This book is packed with research-based strategies for developing the mental skills necessary to reach your sport performance goals. Coeditor Dave Collins, PhD, is an expert sport psychology practitioner who has been a consultant to more than 80 world-class athletes or Olympic medalists as well as professional teams and performers. Coeditor Andrew Cruickshank, PhD, has also consulted with multiple elite teams and athletes, including world-class athletes and Olympic and Paralympic medalists. The coeditors' blended approach emphasizes the importance of integrating mental skills training into a holistic training approach to achieve competition-day success.
Sport Psychology Essentials will teach you to do the following:
Practice your mental skills during physical training so you are prepared to bring an elite athlete mindset to the arena.
Assess your athlete's or team's mental skills.
Use advanced sport psychology techniques that fit your unique personality and lifestyle to improve motivation, confidence, imagery, self-regulation, and concentration.
Enhance the performance potential of your team through leadership, team culture, and shared mental models.
Implement plans for optimal team and individual performance using program development, motor skills training, talent development, and strategies to persevere through slumps and adversity.
Success Story sidebars reveal how real-life teams, athletes, and coaches have succeeded in using proven mental training techniques. Learn foundational sport psychology concepts by exploring the scientific background behind mental strategies in athletic performance. Sport Psychology Essentials will help you unlock your sport performance potential and stay ahead of the competition.
Contents
Part I. Making Sport Psychology Work
Chapter 1. Blending Mental Training Into a Performance Program
Dave Collins and Andrew Cruickshank
Chapter 2. Case Conceptualization: Strategies for Assessing and Conceiving
Amanda Martindale
Chapter 3. Integrating Athlete- and Performance-Centered Approaches
Andreas Küttel
Chapter 4. Putting Into Practice a Sound Philosophy of Sport Psychology
Artur Poczwardowski
Part II. Enhancing Athletes' Performance Mindset
Chapter 5. Motivation
David Shearer
Chapter 6. Confidence
Denis Hauw
Chapter 7. Imagery and Mental Practice
Geoff P. Lovell and John K. Parker
Chapter 8. Self-Regulation
Tynke Toering
Chapter 9. Concentration, Focus, and Attention
John Toner
Chapter 10. Reflection and Balance
Carlos Eduardo Gonçalves and Humberto Moreira Carvalho
Part III. Enhancing Team Performance Potential
Chapter 11. Leadership
Andrew Cruickshank
Chapter 12. High-Performing Cultures
Geir Jordet and Rune Giske
Chapter 13. Shared Mental Models
Pam Richards and Dave Collins
Chapter 14. Macrostructures and Microsystems
Dave Collins
Part IV. Preparing Individuals and Teams for Optimal Performance
Chapter 15. Program Integration
Tom Willmott
Chapter 16. Motoric Considerations
Maurizio Bertollo and Antonio De Fano
Chapter 17. Talent Development
Áine MacNamara
Chapter 18. Practice and Transfer to Competition, Peaking, and Performing
Boris Blumenstein and Iris Orbach
Chapter 19. Staying Motivated: Countering Slumps, Injury, and Ill-Being
Andreas Stenling and Andreas Ivarsson
Epilogue. Getting Help: What to Look for and What to Expect in a Consultant
Andrew Cruickshank and David Collins
