Description
Book SynopsisCounselling Skills in Applied Sport Psychology is a new text that provides a how to' in basic counselling skills for sport psychology students and practitioners. The book supports scholarship in applied sport psychology at the upper undergraduate and postgraduate levels, especially for those training to become sport psychology practitioners.
Presented in ten chapters and an extensive appendix (of forms and letters) to cater to the ranging needs of students, the book addresses basic counselling skills, their place in applied sport psychology, and personal development. The core of the book lies in exploring counselling models and how to counsel client-athletes through beginnings, middles, and endings. It delves more deeply into personal and professional development, especially understanding therapeutic modalities, supervision, and self-care.
Providing a unique focus of basic counselling skills in applied sport psychology, concentrating on the professional relationship be
Table of Contents
1. Exploring counselling skills in applied sport psychology
2. Understanding Your Self
3. Understanding People from a Psychological Perspective
4. The Therapeutic Relationship and Working Contexts
5. A Model for Counselling Skills
6. Beginnings
7. Middles
8. Endings
9. Working in Practice: Ethics, Challenges, and Referral
10. Taking Care of Yourself
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