Bücher der Reihe Routledge Psychology of Sport, Exercise and Physical Activity

This ground-breaking book is the first to offer cutting-edge knowledge about contemporary theoretical, methodological, and applied issues with the contributions of leading researchers and practitioners in the field. Feeling states in sports are comprehensively covered by adopting an international and multi-disciplinary perspective.

Critical Perspectives in Sport Injury Psychology aims to engage in more intense debates about sport injury psychology by turning a more critical eye towards it. It challenges the field¿s traditions and practices by drawing from different disciplines, paradigms, and theories.

Critical Perspectives in Sport Injury Psychology aims to engage in more intense debates about sport injury psychology by turning a more critical eye towards it. It challenges the field¿s traditions and practices by drawing from different disciplines, paradigms, and theories.

This ground-breaking book is the first to offer cutting-edge knowledge about contemporary theoretical, methodological, and applied issues with the contributions of leading researchers and practitioners in the field. Feeling states in sports are comprehensively covered by adopting an international and multi-disciplinary perspective.

This is the first book to bring together the reflections of international experts and practitioners using REBT in the field, to discuss the use of REBT in sport and exercise. It offers case-studies to give a rare and detailed insight into the use of REBT in sport and exercise across a diverse range of issues.

Athlete Transitions into Retirement provides contemporary viewpoints on athlete transitions from elite sport in a global context. This volume is a collaboration of research from leading authors around the world, offering global perspectives to athlete transitions into retirement.

Analytical Psychology of Football provides for youth trainers, accessible, scientifically based tools and techniques to develop resilence and sustain motivation in grass roots and elite footballers.

This book explores the strategies and techniques that facilitate the performance and learning of closed self-paced motor tasks. Included in the instructional-psychological routines discussed are pre-performance, focusing attention, motor imagery, enhanced expectancies, autonomy support, gaze strategies, self-talk, and periodization.

Transitions in sport can be either normative (relatively predictable) or non-normative (less predictable) and are critical times in the development of athlete's careers. Whilst retirement from sport is inevitable, the timing of retirement can be less predictable. If an athlete copes well with the transition they may be better able to adjust to life after sport. However, not coping with the transition can lead to a crisis and negative consequences for the athlete.Transition periods from sport and in particular retirement from sport have been identified as high-risk periods for athletes in terms of psychological distress. However, circumstances surrounding the athlete's retirement are a critical factor in the transition into life after sport. Voluntarily retiring from sport for example, leads to a smoother transition than being forced into retirement through injury or deselection. Research indicates that retirement from sport should be seen as a process rather than a single moment, with many athletes taking up to 2 years to successfully transition out of sport.Currently, there are few bodies of work that are solely devoted to retirement transition. Athlete Transitions into Retirement: Experiences in Elite Sport and Options for Effective Support provides contemporary viewpoints on athlete transitions from elite sport in a global context. This volume is a collaboration of research from leading authors around the world, offering global perspectives to athlete transitions into retirement and is key reading for both researchers and practitioners in the fields of Sport Psychology and Coaching as well as the Athletes themselves.