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Existential psychology and sport : theory and application
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Existential psychology and sport : theory and application

Author: Mark Nesti
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
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"Existential psychology aims to assist athletes in their personal growth so that as they develop their physical strengths through sports coaching, they also become a stronger person, and are therefore more likely to achieve their true sporting potential. Existential Psychology and Sport outlines an approach that can be used to add something of depth, substance and academic rigour to sport psychology in applied  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mark Nesti
ISBN: 0415281423 9780415281423 9780203483435 020348343X
OCLC Number: 54972838
Description: xiii, 142 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: 1. Introduction : existential and humanistic psychology --
2. Existential-phenomenological psychology : ideas and relevance to sport --
3. Phenomenology : methodology and methods --
4. Anxiety and sport : an existential-phenomenological approach --
5. Existential counselling in sport psychology : engaging in the encounter --
6. Professional team sport : operating within an existential framework --
7. Ethical issues in existential practice : authentic values and personal responsibility --
8. To be or not to be ... an existential sport psychologist?
Responsibility: Mark Nesti.
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The existential approach described in this text offers an alternative to the cognitive-behavioural model of applied sports psychology. Standard psychological models of athlete behaviour advocate  Read more...

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