Carsten Hvid Larsen – författare

Mindfulness- and acceptance-based approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Mindfulness Acceptance Commitment (MAC) are gaining momentum with sport psychology practitioners who work to support elite athletes. These acceptance-based, or third wave, cognitive behavioral approaches in sport psychology highlight that thought suppression and control techniques can trigger a metacognitive scanning process, and that excessive cognitive activity and task-irrelevant focus (self-focused attention such as trying to change thoughts) disrupts performance. Using this perspective, the aim of sport psychology interventions is not to help the athletes engage in the futile task of managing and controlling internal life. Rather, it suggests that sport psychology practitioners should work to increase athletes’ willingness to accept negative thoughts and emotions in pursuit of valued ends. Key aspects of such interventions include: teaching athletes to open up and accept, teaching athletes to mindfully engage in the present moment, and helping athletes formulate the values and engage in committed actions towards these values. The goal of Mindfulness and Acceptance in Sport: How to Help Athletes Perform and Thrive under Pressure then is to provide students, researchers, practitioners, and coaches of sport psychology with practical guidance for implementing mindfulness and acceptance approaches in their work with athletes. This book brings together highly experienced practitioners and shares their working methods, exercises, and cases to inspire the sport psychology profession.

This new edition of Mindfulness and Acceptance in Sport provides sport psychology practitioners, coaches and students with practical guidance for implementing mindfulness and acceptance approaches in their work with athletes. In this fully revised edition, highly experienced practitioners share their working methods, exercises and cases to inspire the sport psychology profession.This second edition of Mindfulness and Acceptance in Sport presents a collection of applied perspectives, methods and techniques that allows students, researchers, practitioners and coaches of sport psychology to be inspired, to adopt the methods into their own practice, and to adapt methods and techniques to the specific culture of their country and of the sport they work in. The book has a very clear, applied “how-to” focus. Rather than simply describing mindfulness and acceptance methods, Mindfulness and Acceptance in Sport specifies how to use these methods and the keys to making them work and the potential pitfalls.Mindfulness and Acceptance in Sport is key reading for applied sport psychology practitioners, sport psychology students, as well as coaches and managers working in elite sport and talent development.

This new edition of Mindfulness and Acceptance in Sport provides sport psychology practitioners, coaches and students with practical guidance for implementing mindfulness and acceptance approaches in their work with athletes. In this fully revised edition, highly experienced practitioners share their working methods, exercises and cases to inspire the sport psychology profession.This second edition of Mindfulness and Acceptance in Sport presents a collection of applied perspectives, methods and techniques that allows students, researchers, practitioners and coaches of sport psychology to be inspired, to adopt the methods into their own practice, and to adapt methods and techniques to the specific culture of their country and of the sport they work in. The book has a very clear, applied “how-to” focus. Rather than simply describing mindfulness and acceptance methods, Mindfulness and Acceptance in Sport specifies how to use these methods and the keys to making them work and the potential pitfalls.Mindfulness and Acceptance in Sport is key reading for applied sport psychology practitioners, sport psychology students, as well as coaches and managers working in elite sport and talent development.