Mindfulness and acceptance in sport : how to help athletes perform and thrive under pressure / edited by Kristoffer Henriksen, Jakob Hansen and Carsten Hvid Larsen.

Contributor(s): Henriksen, Kristoffer [editor.] | Hansen, Jakob (Sports psychologist) [editor.] | Larsen, Carsten Hvid [editor.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2019Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780429435232; 0429435231; 9780429787379; 0429787375; 9780429787386; 0429787383; 9780429787362; 0429787367Subject(s): Sports -- Psychological aspects | Mindfulness (Psychology) | Athletes -- Psychology | Athletes -- Mental health | Performance -- Psychological aspects | SPORTS & RECREATION / Sports Psychology | PSYCHOLOGY / Physiological Psychology | PSYCHOLOGY / Applied PsychologyDDC classification: 796.01/9 LOC classification: GV706.4 | .M57 2019ebOnline resources: Taylor & Francis | OCLC metadata license agreement
Contents:
Mindfulness and acceptance approaches : do they have a place in elite sport? / Kristoffer Henriksen, Peter Haberl, Amy Baltzell, Jakob Hansen, Daniel Birrer, and Carsten Hvid Larsen -- Helping athletes make good decisions through the sport lifeline and functional analysis / Gustaf Reinebo, Kristoffer Henriksen and Tobias Lundgren -- Helping athletes clarify their values and become grounded in their sport venture / Carsten Hvid Larsen, Gustaf Reinebo and Tobias Lundgren -- Helping athletes by present when performing under pressure / Jakob Hansen and Peter Haberl -- Helping athletes defuse and accept : thoughts and emotions are not the enemies / Daniel Birrer, Greg Diment, and Olivier Schmid -- Helping athletes commit to action : cold feet, crying babies, and early morning training / Mark W. Aoyagi and Jessica D. Bartley -- Losing motivation, career termination, reboot and an Olympic medal : working with a swimmer in the year leading up to the Olympics / Carsten Hvid Larsen and Kristoffer Henriksen -- Mindful of a new role : an ACT based sport psychology course for coaches / Søren Svane Hoyer, Astrid Becker-Larsen, Jakob Hansen and Kristoffer Henriksen -- Keeping your eyes closed and on the ball : mindfulness in professional sports in the United States / Mark W. Aoyagi and Jonathan Fader -- ACT for adolescent athletes : a case study with a young basketball player / Kristel Kiens and Carsten Hvid Larsen -- Mindful sport performance enhancement in action : a case study with an elite football academy / Amy L. Spencer, Keith A. Kaufman, Carol R. Glass, and Timothy R. Pineau -- Caught in the trap of trying, repeat success : sport psychology dupport for the Swedish men's handball team in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics / Johan Ekengren -- Mindfulness-training in professional soccer / Anders Meland -- Nature as a source to gain perspective and experience / Anne Marte Pensgaard -- Self-compassion in sport for courage and performance / Amy Baltzell, Philip Röthlin and Göran Kenttä -- When disaster hits : helping the injured athlete to accept and refocus / John Baranoff and Renee Appaneal -- East meets West : mindfulness intervention in Hong Kong elite sport setting / Hin Yue LI (Henry) and Ning Su -- Taking our own medicine : the mindful sport psychology practitioner in high pressure events / Kristoffer Henriksen, Carsten Hvid Larsen, and Jakob Hansen.
Summary: "The goal of Mindfulness and Acceptance Approaches in Elite Sport then is to provide students, researchers, practitioners and coaches of sport psychology with practical guidance for implementing mindfulness and acceptance approaches in their work with athletes. Bringing together highly experienced practitioners and sharing their working methods, exercises and cases to inspire the sport psychology profession"-- Provided by publisher.
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Mindfulness and acceptance approaches : do they have a place in elite sport? / Kristoffer Henriksen, Peter Haberl, Amy Baltzell, Jakob Hansen, Daniel Birrer, and Carsten Hvid Larsen -- Helping athletes make good decisions through the sport lifeline and functional analysis / Gustaf Reinebo, Kristoffer Henriksen and Tobias Lundgren -- Helping athletes clarify their values and become grounded in their sport venture / Carsten Hvid Larsen, Gustaf Reinebo and Tobias Lundgren -- Helping athletes by present when performing under pressure / Jakob Hansen and Peter Haberl -- Helping athletes defuse and accept : thoughts and emotions are not the enemies / Daniel Birrer, Greg Diment, and Olivier Schmid -- Helping athletes commit to action : cold feet, crying babies, and early morning training / Mark W. Aoyagi and Jessica D. Bartley -- Losing motivation, career termination, reboot and an Olympic medal : working with a swimmer in the year leading up to the Olympics / Carsten Hvid Larsen and Kristoffer Henriksen -- Mindful of a new role : an ACT based sport psychology course for coaches / Søren Svane Hoyer, Astrid Becker-Larsen, Jakob Hansen and Kristoffer Henriksen -- Keeping your eyes closed and on the ball : mindfulness in professional sports in the United States / Mark W. Aoyagi and Jonathan Fader -- ACT for adolescent athletes : a case study with a young basketball player / Kristel Kiens and Carsten Hvid Larsen -- Mindful sport performance enhancement in action : a case study with an elite football academy / Amy L. Spencer, Keith A. Kaufman, Carol R. Glass, and Timothy R. Pineau -- Caught in the trap of trying, repeat success : sport psychology dupport for the Swedish men's handball team in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics / Johan Ekengren -- Mindfulness-training in professional soccer / Anders Meland -- Nature as a source to gain perspective and experience / Anne Marte Pensgaard -- Self-compassion in sport for courage and performance / Amy Baltzell, Philip Röthlin and Göran Kenttä -- When disaster hits : helping the injured athlete to accept and refocus / John Baranoff and Renee Appaneal -- East meets West : mindfulness intervention in Hong Kong elite sport setting / Hin Yue LI (Henry) and Ning Su -- Taking our own medicine : the mindful sport psychology practitioner in high pressure events / Kristoffer Henriksen, Carsten Hvid Larsen, and Jakob Hansen.

"The goal of Mindfulness and Acceptance Approaches in Elite Sport then is to provide students, researchers, practitioners and coaches of sport psychology with practical guidance for implementing mindfulness and acceptance approaches in their work with athletes. Bringing together highly experienced practitioners and sharing their working methods, exercises and cases to inspire the sport psychology profession"-- Provided by publisher.

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