Routledge Handbook of Applied Sport Psychology: A Comprehensive Guide for Students and Practitioners (Routledge International Handbooks)

Routledge Handbook of Applied Sport Psychology: A Comprehensive Guide for Students and Practitioners (Routledge International Handbooks) Review

Routledge Handbook of Applied Sport Psychology: A Comprehensive Guide for Students and Practitioners (Routledge International Handbooks)

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The Routledge Handbook of Applied Sport Psychology is a definitive guide to the theory and practice of applied sport psychology. It goes further than any other book in surveying the full variety of issues that practising sport psychologists will confront in their working lives. It introduces the most important tools and skills that psychologists will need to be truly helpful to their clients, and it also adopts a holistic definition of the role of the sport psychologist, explaining how effective counselling, assessment, and therapeutic models can add important extra dimensions to professional practice. The book is divided into seven thematic sections, addressing:

• counselling
• assessment
• theoretical and therapeutic models
• issues for the individual athlete, from injury and overtraining to depression
• issues for teams, from conflict resolution to travel
• working with special populations
• mental skills, such as imagery, goal setting, and concentration.

Moving beyond the traditional tracks of clinical psychology and performance enhancement, the authors in this book argue convincingly that psychologists would benefit from attempting to understand athletes’ social and familial contexts – their health, happiness, and interpersonal dynamics in the broadest sense – if they are to serve their clients’ best interests. With contributions from many of the world’s leading sport psychologists, and with clear descriptions of best practice in each chapter, the Routledge Handbook of Applied Sport Psychology is essential reading for all serious students and practitioners of sport psychology, counselling, applied sport science, health psychology, and related fields.

You will not be disappointed with Routledge Handbook of Applied Sport Psychology: A Comprehensive Guide for Students and Practitioners (Routledge International Handbooks)

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The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Performance Psychology (Oxford Library of Psychology)

The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Performance Psychology (Oxford Library of Psychology) Review

The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Performance Psychology (Oxford Library of Psychology)

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The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Performance Psychology includes the latest research and applied perspectives from leaders in the field of performance psychology. Current and comprehensive, this foundational volume presents sport and performance psychology from myriad perspectives, including:

- individual psychological processes in performance such as attention, imagery, superior performance intelligence, motivation, anxiety, confidence, cognition and emotion
- the social psychological processes in performance including leadership, teamwork, coaching, relationships, moral behavior, and gender and cultural issues
- human development issues in performance, such as the development of talent and expertise, positive youth development, the role of the family, end of involvement transitions, and both youth and masters-level sport and physical activity programs
- interventions in sport and performance psychology and counseling of performers in distress including such important issues for all performers as: appearance- and performance-enhancing drug use, injuries, managing pain, eating and weight issues, burnout, and the role of physical activity in maintaining health.

The chapters collected here also cover the history of sport and performance psychology; the scope and nature of the field; ethical issues in sport and performance psychology; performance psychology in the performing arts and other non-sporting fields; perfectionism and performance; the role of the performance coach and of the sport psychologist with a coach and team; supervision; and a look ahead to the future of the field.You will not be disappointed with The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Performance Psychology (Oxford Library of Psychology)

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