Improving Your Mental Game A Sports Psychiatry Pocket Guide for Athletes, Coaches, and Athletic Trainers |
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| Author:
| Smith, Pamela |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4808-4415-5 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2017 |
| Publisher: | Archway Publishing
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| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | USD $3.99 |
Book Description:
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Sports psychiatry uses psychological, neuroscientific, and medical knowledge to address optimal performance and the well-being of athletes. The "mental game" refers not only to a mind that has been conditioned through mental skills training for optimal performance, but also to a broader mindset that includes an awareness of psychosocial issues and mental conditions that potentially impact optimal performance.
In Improving Your Mental Game, author Dr. Pamela Smith presents a...
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Sports psychiatry uses psychological, neuroscientific, and medical knowledge to address optimal performance and the well-being of athletes. The "mental game" refers not only to a mind that has been conditioned through mental skills training for optimal performance, but also to a broader mindset that includes an awareness of psychosocial issues and mental conditions that potentially impact optimal performance.
In Improving Your Mental Game, author Dr. Pamela Smith presents a practical, concise, and convenient pocket guide geared toward college and professional athletes, coaches, and athletic trainers. It covers a host of topics including:
* core psychological techniques for improving athletic performance such as imagery, goal setting, self-talk, and relaxation;
* tips and exercises for managing focus, negative self-talk, pressure, daily learning and growth, commitment, self-defeating distractions, fear, motivation, riding the bench, taking responsibility, controlling emotions, self-belief and confidence, trust and consistency, and pregame warm-up;
* psychosocial issues impacting performance such as team cohesion, managing team conflict, coping with injury, and end of career issues;
* mental conditions associated with the competitive sports environment like anxiety, depression, substance abuse, concussion, and eating disorders;
* banned substances;
* athletes with disabilities; and
* brain health maintenance - i.e. sleep & nutrition for optimal brain & neuromuscular function.