Sports Psychiatry: Unlocking Peak Performance and Life Balance for Athletes

As a mental health professional, are you equipped to help competitive athletes overcome adversity and achieve peak performance? While you may possess the necessary general skills, sports-specific knowledge is often lacking. Sports Psychiatry: Strategies for Life Balance and Peak Performance bridges this knowledge gap, providing a unique perspective and expertise in cultivating athletes’ peak performance while promoting team unity, sound judgment, personal growth, pride, and a lasting sense of accomplishment.

Insights into Sports Culture and Team Dynamics

The book delves into the world of elite competition, explaining sports culture and team structure and function. You’ll gain a vivid understanding of the environment in which athletes operate, and how to navigate the complexities of team dynamics.

Understanding Athletes’ Emotions and Mental Challenges

Elite athletes experience extreme highs and lows, from the thrill of success to the agony of defeat. This book focuses on the shifting nature and intensity of athletes’ emotions, and the situations that magnify them, such as injury, media scrutiny, performance-enhancing drugs, and the fear of failure and success.

Practical Strategies for Peak Performance and Mental Wellness

Learn how to help athletes regulate energy, recognize and control stress, prepare mentally for performance, and treat mental disorders common to athletes. Drawing on the author’s extensive experience, clinical observations, and the evidence base of sports psychiatry, you’ll gain practical insights to inform, teach, encourage, and inspire athletes at all levels.

This engaging and insightful book is a must-read for mental health professionals, primary care and sports medicine physicians, athletic trainers, team owners and managers, and athletes themselves. Sports Psychiatry provides the go-to strategies for supporting and attaining peak performance, helping athletes overcome mental barriers and reach their full potential.

Product Details:

Published by: American Psychiatric Publishing

Publication Date: April 16, 2012

Language: English

ISBN: 9781585624157, 9781585629664