Full Description
This innovative text, authored by a well-qualified team, offers an applied introduction to the growing subject of sports psychology. It addresses the key challenges facing lecturers and students in the area by comprehensively covering a diverse range of topics, reflecting relevant research, and applying theory to practice.
Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, this accessible book covers the fundamentals of sport psychology and demonstrates how theory can be applied in practice. Each chapter opens with a description of a specific case that is dealt with as the chapter proceeds. The reader is then taken through the background theory, and relevant research and literature, before being presented with a proposed 'solution' to this opening problem.
Contents
Foreword: Bobby Gould
Introduction
PART I: Sport Psychology in Practice
The team just hasn''t gelled"
John Kremer & Deidre Scully (Department of Psychology, The Queen''s University, Belfast)
Incompatibility in the coach - athlete relationship
Sophia Jowett (School of Health, Staffordshire University) & Ian Cockerill (School of Sport & Exercise Sciences, University of Birmingham)
Mental toughness : the concept and its measurement
Peter Clough, Keith Earle & David Sewell (Department of Psychology, University of Hull)
PART II: Goals, Motivation and Commitment
Enhancing the quantity and quality of motivation: the promotion of task involvement in a junior football team
Joan Duda & Anne Marte Pensgaard (School of Sport & Exercise Sciences, University of Birmingham)
The application of achievement-goal theory in youth sport
Chris Harwood & Stuart Biddle (Department of Physical Education, Sport Science & Recreation Management, Loughborough University)
In pursuit of the perfect performance
Ian Cockerill (School of Sport & Exercise Sciences, University of Birmingham)
PART III: Cognitions and Confidence
Sport participants'' reflections on past events: the role of social cognition
Sandy Wolfson (Division of Psychology, University of Northumbria)
Confidence and the pre-shot routine in golf: a case study
David Shaw (Department of Psychology, University of Central Lancashire)
Functional-equivalence solutions for problems with motor imagery
Paul Holmes (Department of Exercise & Sport Science, Manchester Metropolitan University) & David Collins (Scottish Centre for Physical Education, Sport & Leisure Studies, University of Edinburgh)
Case studies in confidence for elite slalom canoeists
Hugh Mantle (School of Education & Social Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University)
PART IV: Injury, Counselling and Social Support
The psychological rehabilitation of a severely-injured rugby player
Richard Cox (Scottish Centre for Physical Education, Sport & Leisure Studies, University of Edinburgh)
Football as an alternative medium for facilitating therapeutic intervention with a discrete group of refugees
Rachel Tribe (Department of Psychology, University of East London)
Coping with retirement from professional sport
David Lavallee (Scottish School of Sports Studies, University of Strathclyde), Jim Golby (School of Social Sciences, University of Teesside) & Ruth Lavallee (School of Leisure & Sports Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University)"
