
Counselling Skills in Applied Sport Psychology
Learning How to Counsel
- 230 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Counselling 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 between the sport psychology practitioner and client-athlete in applied sport psychology practice, Counselling Skills in Applied Sport Psychology is essential reading and practice for upper undergraduates and postgraduates in applied sport psychology and sport and exercise psychology.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- How is this book organised?
- A synopsis of counselling skills
- 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
- References
- Appendix: Letters, contracts, case notes, and formulations
- Index