UID:
almahu_9949697579702882
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 411 pages)
ISBN:
0-7020-4875-5
Content:
Performance Psychology: A Practitioner's Guide is a comprehensive, evidence-based text covering the key aspects of performance culture: performer development, preparation, training and execution. Written by a team of international contributors, including national coaches, training specialists, applied sports psychologists, clinicians and researchers, and building on strong links between theory and practice, the book shows how applied psychological methods and principles can be used to enhance performance Contributing authors offer clear implications for applied practice and each section is summarized by contributions from a 'Performers Panel' of experts who provide real-life practical examples. Performance psychology is applied to a wide variety of physical performance domains which enables practitioners to see how they can combine ideas and tailor interventions, to people and contexts, to produce effective applications of psychology.
Note:
Two columns to the page.
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Introduction: getting ready to perform / Dave Collins -- Aims, principles and methodologies in talent identification and development / Angela Button -- Expertise the goal of performance development / Nicola Hodges and Joseph Baker -- Psychological characteristics of developing excellence / Aine MacNamara -- Talent development environments: key considerations for effective practice / Russell Martindale and Paddy Mortimer -- Implications and applications - views from the performer's panel / Dave Collins -- Introduction: organisational issues in providing support / Dave Collins -- Organising for excellence / Veronica Burke -- The team perspective: promoting excellence in performance teams / Alan Macpherson and Pat Howard -- Planning for physical performance, the individual perspective: planning, periodisation, prediction, and why the future ain't what it used to be / John Kiely -- Practical dimensions of providing for excellence: views from the performer's panel / Dave Collins -- Introduction: practice regimens for excellence / Dave Collins -- "Keeping it together": motor control under pressure / Chris Button, Clare MacMahon and Rich Masters -- Skill acquisition: designing optimal learning environments / Joan N. Vickers -- Effective skill development: how should athletes' skills be developed? / Andy Abraham and Dave Collins -- Mental practice: neuroscientific support for a new approach / Paul Holmes and Claire Calmels -- Developing the performance brain: decision making under pressure / Duncan R.D. Mascarenhas and Nickolas C. Smith -- Practical dimensions of developing skill: views from the performers' panel / Dave Collins -- Introduction: performing on the day / Dave Collins -- Coping and mental toughness / Hugh Richards -- Emotional issues of peak performance: managing mood -- Attention / Aidan Moran -- Putting it together: skills for pressure performance / Mark Wilson and Hugh Richards -- Putting them together: skills packages to optimise team/group performance / Dace Collins and Judy Collins -- Practical dimensions of realising your peak performance / Dave Collins -- Conclusion: where next?: getting help in your pursuit of excellence / Amanda Martindale and Dave Collins.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-443-06734-1
Language:
English
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