Counselling Athletes: Applying Reversal Theory

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Psychology Press, 2001 - Biography & Autobiography - 159 pages

Reversal theory is an innovative psychological theory exploring human motivation, emotion and personality. This is the first book in the field to examine how reversal theory can be used by practitioners in applied sport psychology in their counselling work with athletes. Counselling Athletes explores the key elements of reversal theory, and comprehensively demonstrates how reversal theory can improve understanding in the following key areas:
* athletes' motivational states when performing
* athletes' motivational characteristics
* identifying performance problems
* athletes' experiences of stress
* intervention strategies
* eating disorders
* exercise addiction.
Each chapter includes real-life case study material from elite performers in sport, as well as guides to further reading and questions for discussion.
Counselling Athletes is essential reading for all practising sport psychologists and coaches, and for any student of sport psychology.

 

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Contents

Recognising athletes motivational states
20
Measuring athletes states and dominance
42
Identifying performance motivation problems
60
Counselling athletes with inappropriate reversal problems
73
Athletes experiencing stress
92
Reversal inhibition and inappropriate strategies in athletes
106
The sport psychologist and eclectic athlete counselling
117
Appendix The role of response satiation in overtraining
129
References
144
Author index
154
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TitleCounselling Athletes: Applying Reversal Theory
Counselling Athletes: Applying Reversal Theory, J. H. Kerr
AuthorJ. H. Kerr
Editionillustrated
PublisherPsychology Press, 2001
ISBN0419261303, 9780419261308
Length159 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / Sports
Education / Teaching / Subjects / Physical Education
Psychology / Clinical Psychology
Psychology / Psychotherapy / Counseling
Social Science / Sociology / General
Sports & Recreation / General
Sports & Recreation / Sports Psychology
  
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