Performance Psychology in Action

A Casebook for Working With Athletes, Performing Artists, Business Leaders, and Professionals in High-Risk Occupations

Buch | Hardcover

337 Seiten

2009
American Psychological Association (Verlag)
978-1-4338-0443-4 (ISBN)

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A case-by-case demonstration of how consultants have helped performers develop confidence, overcome mental blocks, manage emotions, and use preparation techniques such as imagery and positive self-talk in order to achieve the best possible mental state for performance.

Expert athletes understand the mind-body connection. For years, they have learned mental skills from coaches, consultants, and other practitioners in order to optimize physical performance. Now, these same mental skills are being taught to a broad range of performers, such as dancers, actors, lawyers, surgeons, business leaders, and rescue workers. The resulting new field of performance psychology allows performers from a variety of fields to "get their head out of the way so that their body can do what it's trained to do."

In detail, this book shows the everyday practice of performance psychology. Case by case, the stories demonstrate how consultants have helped performers develop confidence, overcome mental blocks, manage emotions, and use preparation techniques such as imagery and positive self-talk in order to achieve the best possible mental state for performance.

The chapters blend theory and practice by integrating literature reviews with real-world applications, and they cover a wide range of performers, including athletes, performing artists, business leaders, and professionals in high-risk occupations. Extensive session transcripts are provided, including the consultants' thoughts and reactions throughout the session.

Engaging, nuanced, personal, and highly accessible, this book will help practitioners and students from a variety of fields explore performance psychology — in action.

Kate F. Hays, PhD, maintains an independent practice, The Performing Edge, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with a specialized focus on performance enhancement for athletes, performing artists, and businesspeople. She earned her master's and doctorate from Boston University in 1971. In New Hampshire, following her graduate training, she directed a community mental health center and subsequently developed an individual and group private practice. Her research, writing, teaching, and practice, both in New Hampshire and, since 1997, in Toronto, have been directed toward the mental benefits of physical activity and the application of sport psychology techniques to other performance populations as well as athletes. Dr. Hays is the author of Working It Out: Using Exercise in Psychotherapy; Move Your Body, Tone Your Mood; and (with co-author Charles H. Brown Jr.) You're On! Consulting for Peak Performance; and edited Integrating Exercise, Sports, Movement and Mind: Therapeutic Unity. A former president of American Psychological Association's Division of Exercise and Sport Psychology, she is the recipient of its Bruce Ogilvie Award for Professional Practice.

Contributors
Foreword
Raymond D. Fowler
Preface
Introduction
Part I. Mental Attributes For Peak Performance
Chapter 1: The "Canon" of Psychological Skills Training for Enhancing Performance
Mark B. Andersen
Chapter 2: Emotional Intelligence
Sean C. McCann
Chapter 3: Confidence
Daniel R. Gould
Chapter 4: Mental Preparation, Memorization, and Improvisation
Sandra Foster, Paul J. Lloyd, and Sara Kamin
Part II. Performance Challenges
Chapter 5: Performance Anxiety
Kate F. Hays
Chapter 6: Audition Anxiety
David J. Grand
Chapter 7: Working With Perfection
Lynda M. Mainwaring
Chapter 8: Competition
Gloria Balague
Part III. Performance-Related Consequences
Chapter 9: Eating Disorders
Karen D. Cogan
Chapter 10: Isolation
Shane Murphy
Chapter 11: Overtraining, Burnout, Injury, and Retirement
Kirsten M. Peterson
Part IV. The Consultant and the System
Chapter 12: Adolescent Performers and the Family System
Douglas M. Hankes
Chapter 13: Team Leadership
Robert S. Weinberg
Chapter 14: Hierarchical Public Safety Organizations
Mario J. Scalora
Part V. Conclusion
Chapter 15: The Consultant as a Performer
Charles H. Brown
Index
About the Editor

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.5.2009
Verlagsort	Washington DC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4338-0443-3 / 1433804433
ISBN-13	978-1-4338-0443-4 / 9781433804434
Zustand	Neuware