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In praise of quantitative methods: how numbers can change culture
No full textMany qualitative researchers make impassioned pleas for sport cultures to change. They tell tales of sexism, racism, homophobia, abuse, and exploitation. Harriet and Mark argue that these calls to arms are important and worthy of attention, yet the degree to which such studies actually change culture is unknown. They discuss the issue of research effecting change and tell the story of a quantitative study on the health and welfare of jockeys in the Australian racing industry
The practitioner and client as storytellers: metaphors and folktales in applied sport psychology practice
No full textIn the sport psychology literature, recent attention has been paid to the stories, or narratives, or life histories, that athletes relate to their practitioners. But what of the stories the sport psychologist tells? Mark and Harriet ask whether sport psychologists can use their clients' and their own metaphors, stories, and tales (from their cultures and other cultures) to promote athletes' self-understanding. Myths, folktales, and metaphors have been used for centuries to instruct, warn, delight, pass on values, and even enlighten. In this essay, the authors focus on sport psychologists and clients as metaphor creators and stortellers and on how telling stories, both ancient and modern, may be a type of activity that contributes to therapeutic alliance and helps athletes see and feel their worlds in new and salubrious ways
If you meet the Buddha on the football field, tackle him!
No full textIn Western interpretations of Buddhist principles such as suffering, attachment, and desire, there are many misunderstandings that have probably led to seeing such concepts as alien and not applicable to sport psychology practice. As Mark and Joe argue, Western sport psychologists hold various concepts and constructs of the self as central to applied research and practice (e.g., self-talk, self-image, self-concept, physical self-description, self-efficacy). They also suggest that psychological views of the self are ingrained in the applied sport psychology canon and their usefulness is not often questioned. This essay addresses (among other things) the Buddhist concepts of suffering, attachment, and desire, as well as understandings of the self, or, more accurately, "no-self", and how they may be applied to the training of sport psychologists and to the lives and performances of athletes
Psychodynamic models of therapy
No full textThis book chapter looks at the possibilities of pschodynamic theory being applied in the practice of sport psychology
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