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Handbook of Embodied Cognition and Sport Psychology
The first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists considers the mind–body relationship from the perspective of athletic skill and sports practice. This landmark work is the first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists that considers the mind–body relationship from the perspective of athletic skill and sports practice. With twenty-six chapters by leading researchers, the book connects and integrates findings from fields that range from philosophy of mind to sociology of sports. The chapters show not only that sports can tell scientists how the human mind works but also that the scientific study of the human min...
Becoming a Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology Professional
This edited book by two prominent professionals of Sport and Exercise and Performance Sciences addresses relevant issues and experiences as one becomes a sport, exercise and performance psychology practitioner. Chapters discuss the supervision and training involved along with models of practice, theory, techniques, and ethical issues.
Athletes' Careers Across Cultures
Athletes’ Careers Across Cultures is the first book of its kind to bring together a truly global spread of leading sports psychology career researchers and practitioners into one comprehensive resource. This extensive volume traces the evolution of athlete career research through a cultural lens and maps the complex topography of athletes’ careers across national boundaries exploring how social and cultural discourses shape their development. The area of athlete career development has traditionally been dominated by a Western perspective, an imbalance which has had a considerable influence on the shaping of career studies more generally. Stambulova and Ryba adopt a more culturally sensit...
The Practice of Sport Psychology
The expert practitioners in The Practice of Sport Psychology address a variety of issues and concerns and come from different backgrounds institutes and programs. Each practitioner perceives his or her work from a different perspective-clinical health oriented community oriented feminist social practical-and each has developed unique methods of practice. However all are similar in their intent to optimize mental and emotional conditions so that the athletes and teams with whom they work will meet their desired goals.
Sports
This guide to the available literature on sports in American culture during the last two decades of the 20th century is a companion to Jack Higg's Sports: A Reference Guide (Greenwood, 1982). The types of individual or team sports included in this volume include those that are viewed as physical contests engaged in for physical, emotional, spiritual, or psychological fulfillment. With a focus on books alone, chapters review the available literature regarding sports and each concludes with a bibliography. Academic journals likely to contain articles on the topics discussed are listed at the end of each chapter. Twelve chapters discuss sports and American history, business and law, education, ethnicity and race, gender, literature, philosophy and religion, popular culture, psychology, science and technology, sociology and world history. This reference and guide to further research will appeal to scholars of popular culture and sports. An index and two appendixes are included, one listing important dates in American sports from 1980 through 2000 and one listing sports halls of fame, museums, periodicals, and websites.
Psychology of Sport Excellence
In this book, leading international experts in their respective fields examine and explain the impact of the psychological preparation of elite athletes in their journey to attain excellence. The chapters included in this book, edited by world-renowned scholars Tsung-Min Hung, Ronnie Lidor, and Dieter Hackfort, discuss various theoretical and practical issues related to the use of psychological programs in elite individual and team sports. The objectives of the book are threefold: to examine theoretical and practical aspects of the use of psychological preparation in elite sports; to present the psychological interventions, strategies, and techniques utilised by experienced sport psychology ...
Revista Iberoamericana de Psicología del Ejercicio y el Deporte VOL. IV Nº 2
SUMARIO O CONTEÚDO SUBSTANTIVO DA INFORMAÇAO E AS TAREFAS DE TREINO NO CON- TEXTO DO VOLEIBOL JUVENIL Felismina Pereira, Isabel Mesquita y Amândio Graça Facultad de Deporte. Universidad de Oporto, Portugal ESTUDIO DE LAS ORIENTACIONES DE METAS EN DEPORTISTAS UNIVERSITARIOS: ANÁLISIS DEL GÉNERO, TIPO DE DEPORTE Y NIVEL COMPETITIVO Maicon Carlin1, Alfonso Salguero1, Sara Márquez Rosa1 y Enrique J. Garcés de los Fayos Ruiz2 Facultad de Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte. Universidad de León1 y Unidad de Psicología del Deporte. Universidad de Murcia2, España THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERCEIVED COACH BEHAVIOURS AND TEAM COHE- SION AMONG A SAMPLE OF ROMANIAN ATHLETES Marius C...
