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The Sport and Exercise Psychology Practitioner’s Contribution to Service Delivery Outcomes
Get PDFThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology on 13/05/2024, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/1612197X.2024.2351444The purpose of this article is to review research related to the practitioner’s contribution to effective service delivery. Specifically, we answer five questions. First, what are sport and exercise psychology practitioners striving to achieve? Second, what is expertise in applied sport and exercise psychology? Third, what are characteristics of effective practitioners? Fourth, how can practitioners develop their expertise over time? Fifth, how do practitioners manage the athlete variables and contextual factors that influence service delivery? Offering answers to these questions allows us to identify practical implications to inform practitioner training and development and to suggest avenues to expand knowledge. Results from the review suggest that practitioners who help athletes effectively possess facilitative interpersonal skills, experience professional self-doubt, engage in judicious decision making, exercise organizational savviness, demonstrate multicultural humility, and willingly engage in skill development. Based on current knowledge, future research directions include examining the magnitude of practitioner attributes on service delivery outcomes. Applied implications for professional development include the use of deliberate practice to enhance skill learning, along with using supervision and feedback.Unfunde
A Tale of Two Cities: garrisons, strongholds, fortifications and sieges in the English civil war
No full textThis chapter explores the nature and role of garrisons and garrison warfare in the English civil war, focusing on the role of defended towns, refortified castles, fortified mansions and other strongholds. It goes on to compare and contrast Chester and Gloucester as strongholds and their role in the civil war.UnfundedPublisher specified a 25 year embarg
The triumphs and tribulations of Sir Thomas Myddelton, summer and autumn 1644
No full textVia a series of his often lengthy and quite detailed letters of the time - the full texts of which are transcribed and reproduced within the paper - this article explores Sir Thomas Myddelton's military campaigns and activities along the borders of Shropshire and Montgomeryshire during the late summer and early autumn of 1644, a period when he achieved some significant victories but also found himself frustrated and unable to make major advances into Wales, for reasons which are explored here.Unfunde
An Exploration of Whether Searching for Birth Origins Can Lead to Post-Traumatic Growth in Adult Adoptees
Get PDFAdoption is a lifelong process in which adoptees have to incorporate their adoptive status into their sense of identity throughout their lives. It is a developmental trauma which impacts adoptees on many levels. This study uses poetic inquiry to consider whether adult adoptees from the closed adoption system in England and Wales have experienced post traumatic growth following a search for their birth origins. Following semi-structured interviews with the participants, found poems were created of their experiences of being adopted and searching for their birth origins. As an adoptee who has searched, I provide a reflexive response to the poems and have used the heuristic processes of indwelling and focusing to provide greater insight into the meaning of my own creative writing undertaken throughout my own search and this research.
The aims of this research are firstly to establish whether searching for birth origins can lead to post traumatic growth in adoptees, and if this is the case, then secondly, how does the search lead to post traumatic growth. I have taken an interpretivist approach in order to understand the subjective experience of adoptees, together with how historical and cultural influences have impacted their experience. In creating the found poetry, I considered the whole life experience of the participants as adoptee, from growing up adopted, deciding to search, the search process and after the search. This provides a narrative poetic approach and has allowed an exploration of adoption narratives and how these change and adapt during and following the search in order to provide a more coherent sense of self.
There are four overarching themes that arose from the poems, and these provide an overview of the whole experience of adoptees. The themes are anger/rage; connections/roots; identity; and authenticity. The research demonstrates that
adoptees are given incoherent and illogical adoption narratives that they have to incorporate into their sense of self. Social and cultural narratives around adoption make it difficult for adoptees to challenge these. In searching for birth origins, adoptees can challenge the narratives given to them both by their adoptive families and by wider society and reframe them to provide a more coherent sense of self. This in turn leads to a greater sense of well-being and allows them to find meaning in their experience
Building a community of inquiry for Pluralistic Practice
Get PDFCopyright (c) 2024 Pluralistic Practice JournalPluralism offers a means of recognising the value of multiple voices and perspectives and has emerged as an increasingly significant guiding framework for making sense of the complexity and diversity of contemporary social life. Pluralistic Practice is an open access journal created with the intention of supporting the development of a global community of inquiry within which practitioners, communities, and citizens can share knowledge, experience, and evidence around the challenges and benefits of working pluralistically to facilitate individual and collective well-being, solidarity, and justice. The present article offers an introduction to how the journal will operate and what it hopes to achieve and extends an invitation to be part of this
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Measuring, Predicting, and Influencing Self-Authenticity in Sexual Minority and Heterosexual Populations
Get PDFThe aim of this thesis to consider how to measure, predict, and influence self-authenticity in sexual minority and heterosexual populations. Self-authenticity (defined as knowing and being oneself) is a highly relevant psychological construct, particularly as it has been associated with numerous psychological outcomes. Furthermore, preliminary research suggests that self-authenticity is related to the construct of valued living, and as valued living can be increased using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy techniques, it is hypothetical that engaging in valued action will result in an increase in self-authenticity, as well as an increase in psychological outcomes. This may be particularly helpful to sexual minority individuals. Current measures of self-authenticity demonstrate some issues with regards to initial validation and factor structure, and so a novel measure of self-authenticity
was developed – The Self-Authenticity Measure. This was included in numerous mediation models which demonstrated that encouraging self-authenticity could play a small role in buffering against the negative effects of experienced discrimination and internalised homonegativity on psychological outcomes for sexual minority individuals. Self-authenticity was also included in two regression models to assess potential predictors of self-authenticity, revealing that valued action, self-efficacy, social conformity, and fear of negative evaluation were the biggest predictors. As the strongest predictor, and one that has continually
demonstrated its ability to result in positive psychological change in intervention research, three tasks encouraging valued action were developed and tested for acceptability. Following this, the tasks were used in an experiment alongside a
mindfulness active control condition. The study found a significant effect of time for valued living, self-authenticity, and psychological outcomes, indicating that these may have improved following engagement with the interventions, however this may have been due to a placebo. Conversely, the study did not find significant effects of condition or time by condition interaction effect, indicating that the values condition was no greater at influencing valued living, self-authenticity, and psychological outcomes when compared to the mindfulness condition. However, the design and analysis of the experiment can rule out placebo and expectation effects, adding credibility to these findings
A guide to supporting student parents at university: part three
Get PDFIn the final piece in her series, Andy Todd explores ways personal tutors can help their tutees transition into university smoothlyn/
Navigating the Research Process as Newbies: Personal Reflections
Get PDFThis is the author's original transcript of the presentation delivered at the Social and Political Research Seminar Series, University of ChesterAs part of the Division’s Research Seminar Series, Dr Emma Price and Dr Wayne Campbell are presenting on their personal reflections for navigating the research process as early career researchers. The presentation will reflect on their personal anxieties for beginning their research career, the pressures to publish in academia and the emotional impact of navigating the processes and systems involved in research and publishing.Unfunde
The Nation in the Time of the Pandemic
Get PDFThis chapter examines the expansion of a nascent political movement, tracing its use of social media, notably Twitter, to generate engagement and mobilise a wider network by exploiting the dynamic inherent in the platform. Yes Cymru was formally launched in 2016. Modelled on the Scottish ‘Yes’ campaign, to the extent of adopting near-identical iconography, it was given additional focus by the Brexit vote later that year, and another spike in engagement followed the December 2019 UK general election. The wider (UK) political context has shifted considerably, with the movement attempting to mobilise the increasingly prevalent view that the tectonic plates of British politics are shifting to such an extent that previously unthinkable concepts now seem feasible. By appropriating empirical research conducted utilising the social network analysis software ‘NodeXL’ and debating these findings in line with Denis Balsom’s (The National question again: Welsh political identity in the 1980s. Gomer, 1985) ostensibly outmoded ‘Three Wales Model’, this chapter examines the politics of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wales both quantitatively and qualitatively. Moreover, it explores how Yes Cymru attempted to garner support for Welsh independence amidst the pandemic, in contrast to groups such as Abolish the Welsh Assembly who sought to generate closer ties to Westminster through staking anti-devolution claims.Unfunde
The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd
Get PDFThis is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in [The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd] on [28/09/2022], available online: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Pink-Floyd/Hart-Morrison/p/book/9781032335438?srsltid=AfmBOooHYs3T_rM8z9ies2Pg6G-IIKhuqMjQO52rRI6liHd5y3blFCHYUnfunde
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