ON-SITE INTERVENTION TECHNIQUES FOR ATHLETE PREPARATIONS: A 5-HOUR WORKSHOP

This workshop focuses on athlete preparations at the competition site and the possible actions of the coach during that period. Two features are emphasized: 1) the measurement of pre-competition responses and tendencies, and 2) the appropriate intervention techniques to change atypical responses.

Prospective Audience

Elite/professional/national coaches, elite athletes, and applied sport psychologists.

1. Measurement Items
   • Achievement motivation orientation to the competition of the athlete.
   • Athlete-preferred situational characteristics of the competitive environment.
   • Pre-competition performance readiness symptoms.
   • Pre-competition performance readiness levels.
   • Self-perceived sport pressure sources.
2. Intervention Techniques
   • Thought-stopping.
   • Localized relaxation.
   • Incompatible distractions.
   • Guided-attention focusing.
   • Physical interventions.
   • Symptom removal.
3. Practical demonstrations and experiences of the above items.

Materials

A master copy of a workbook which needs to be reproduced and distributed to participants will be supplied. The workbook is 60 pages in length.

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