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Mindfulness and Acceptance in Sport - How to Help Athletes Perform and Thrive under Pressure (Hardcover)
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Mindfulness and Acceptance in Sport - How to Help Athletes Perform and Thrive under Pressure (Hardcover)
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Mindfulness- and acceptance-based approaches such as Acceptance and
Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Mindfulness Acceptance Commitment
(MAC) are gaining momentum with sport psychology practitioners who
work to support elite athletes. These acceptance-based, or third
wave, cognitive behavioral approaches in sport psychology highlight
that thought suppression and control techniques can trigger a
metacognitive scanning process, and that excessive cognitive
activity and task-irrelevant focus (self-focused attention such as
trying to change thoughts) disrupts performance. Using this
perspective, the aim of sport psychology interventions is not to
help the athletes engage in the futile task of managing and
controlling internal life. Rather, it suggests that sport
psychology practitioners should work to increase athletes'
willingness to accept negative thoughts and emotions in pursuit of
valued ends. Key aspects of such interventions include: teaching
athletes to open up and accept, teaching athletes to mindfully
engage in the present moment, and helping athletes formulate the
values and engage in committed actions towards these values. The
goal of Mindfulness and Acceptance in Sport: How to Help Athletes
Perform and Thrive under Pressure then is to provide students,
researchers, practitioners, and coaches of sport psychology with
practical guidance for implementing mindfulness and acceptance
approaches in their work with athletes. This book brings together
highly experienced practitioners and shares their working methods,
exercises, and cases to inspire the sport psychology profession.
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