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Mental Health in Elite Sport: Applied Perspectives from Across the
Globe provides a focused, exhaustive overview of up-to-date mental
health research, models, and approaches in elite sport to provide
researchers, practitioners, coaches, and students with contemporary
knowledge and strategies to address mental health in elite sport
across a variety of contexts. Mental Health in Elite Sport is
divided into two main parts. The first part focuses globally on
mental health service provision structures and cases specific to
different world regions and countries. The second part focuses on
specific mental health interventions across countries but also
illustrates specific case studies and interventions as influenced
by the local context and culture. This tour around the world offers
readers an understanding of the massive global differences in
mental health service provision within different situations and
organizations. This is the first book of its kind in which highly
experienced scholars and practitioners openly share their programs,
methods, reflections, and failures on working with mental health in
different contexts. By using a global, multi-contextual analysis to
address mental health in elite sport, this book is an essential
text for practitioners such as researchers, coaches, athletes, as
well as instructors and students across the sport science and
mental health fields.
Mental Health in Elite Sport: Applied Perspectives from Across the
Globe provides a focused, exhaustive overview of up-to-date mental
health research, models, and approaches in elite sport to provide
researchers, practitioners, coaches, and students with contemporary
knowledge and strategies to address mental health in elite sport
across a variety of contexts. Mental Health in Elite Sport is
divided into two main parts. The first part focuses globally on
mental health service provision structures and cases specific to
different world regions and countries. The second part focuses on
specific mental health interventions across countries but also
illustrates specific case studies and interventions as influenced
by the local context and culture. This tour around the world offers
readers an understanding of the massive global differences in
mental health service provision within different situations and
organizations. This is the first book of its kind in which highly
experienced scholars and practitioners openly share their programs,
methods, reflections, and failures on working with mental health in
different contexts. By using a global, multi-contextual analysis to
address mental health in elite sport, this book is an essential
text for practitioners such as researchers, coaches, athletes, as
well as instructors and students across the sport science and
mental health fields.
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.
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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