Description:The psychological health of competitive athletes is of paramount importance to performance, retention, and wellbeing in sport, and national governing bodies are increasingly concerned with its promotion. Psychosocial Health and Wellbeing in High-Level Athletes offers students, researchers and practicing sport psychologists an accessible and rigorous grounding in the manifestations of psychosocial health in athletes, the threats athletes face to their psychosocial health, and the interventions which can be designed to enhance it.Seeking to guide future research and expand professional understanding of psychosocial issues in sport, the book is based on a model of cognitive, emotional, social and spiritual health. It clearly defines these dimensions in a sporting context before discussing pertinent threats--such as career transitions, injuries and abuse--and interventions, including adversarial growth, life skill interventions, prevention and organization policy, and mindfulness-based interventions.Providing an innovative and integrated perspective on psychosocial health and wellbeing in competitive sport, this book is essential reading for upper-level students taking any clincial sport psychology modules, and for sport psychologists, coaches and administrators working with competitive athletes.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Psychosocial Health and Well-being in High-Level Athletes. To get started finding Psychosocial Health and Well-being in High-Level Athletes, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Psychosocial Health and Well-being in High-Level Athletes
Description: The psychological health of competitive athletes is of paramount importance to performance, retention, and wellbeing in sport, and national governing bodies are increasingly concerned with its promotion. Psychosocial Health and Wellbeing in High-Level Athletes offers students, researchers and practicing sport psychologists an accessible and rigorous grounding in the manifestations of psychosocial health in athletes, the threats athletes face to their psychosocial health, and the interventions which can be designed to enhance it.Seeking to guide future research and expand professional understanding of psychosocial issues in sport, the book is based on a model of cognitive, emotional, social and spiritual health. It clearly defines these dimensions in a sporting context before discussing pertinent threats--such as career transitions, injuries and abuse--and interventions, including adversarial growth, life skill interventions, prevention and organization policy, and mindfulness-based interventions.Providing an innovative and integrated perspective on psychosocial health and wellbeing in competitive sport, this book is essential reading for upper-level students taking any clincial sport psychology modules, and for sport psychologists, coaches and administrators working with competitive athletes.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Psychosocial Health and Well-being in High-Level Athletes. To get started finding Psychosocial Health and Well-being in High-Level Athletes, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.