246 How To Deal With The Highs And Lows Of Sport
Release Date: 07/12/2024
269 Do You Want to Make Next Year a Great Year? Why Contact A Sport Psychologist!
Demystifying Mental Toughness
In episode #269 David addresses the question, “What Can I Expect When Working With A Sport Psychologist” for the final time as this episode marks the end of an 8 part series. This time he focuses on the following statements “Performance Enhancement: The sports psychologist will help you identify and overcome mental barriers that may be hindering your performance” and “Feedback and Reflection: Expect regular discussions about your progress, experiences in training or competition, and adjustments to your mental training plan.” David highlights that a high percentage of...
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268 Confidentiality: Ethical Considerations for Sport Psychologists
Demystifying Mental Toughness
In today’s episode David explores the importance of confidentiality when working as a Sport Psychologist when supporting clients. He discusses how various environments, such as cafes, public spaces, and formal meeting rooms, can impact a client's comfort and confidentiality. He also emphasizes the need for tailored settings, considering factors like social anxiety, neurodiversity, and the client's familiarity with the space. The episode also covers the ethical considerations in working with athletes, including transparency with coaches, the involvement of...
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267 How to Help Sports Coaches Navigate Anxiety
Demystifying Mental Toughness
In episode #267 of Demystifying Mental Toughness, David discusses the role of a Sport Psychologist in helping coaches manage anxiety. He differentiates between state anxiety, which occurs in specific situations, and trait anxiety, a personality trait influenced by factors such as childhood, genetics, trauma and environment. David goes on to share to insights to aid the understanding of coaches on the topic, with some solutions discussed too. Key Learning Points: · State anxiety can be managed through understanding triggers and subsequent thoughts,...
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266 How to Help Sports Coaches Cope With Pressure and Stress Better
Demystifying Mental Toughness
Today David considers the statement: “Coping strategies: You’ll develop tools to manage pressure and stress” where he focuses on supporting coaches to improve themselves, and in turn, improve their athletes. This is a continuation of his examination into ChatGPT and its response to the question “What Can I Expect When Working With A Sport Psychologist.” David shares many insightful thoughts about the topic to be able to support coaches. With some great questions for coaches to ask themselves. Key Learning Points: How do you want your athletes to behave around your club?...
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265 How to Help Sports Coaches Self Regulate Their Emotions
Demystifying Mental Toughness
Professor Sophia Jowett’s has conducted a lot of research into understanding the interpersonal dynamics between coaches and athletes and is instrumental in raising awareness and changing attitudes around the reciprocity of the relationship and the importance of relational qualities including mutual trust, respect, appreciation, commitment, loyalty, co-operation and collaboration. In today’s episode, part 4 of David’s investigation into ChatGPT’s and its response to the question “What Can I Expect When Working With A Sport Psychologist” he goes on to discuss supporting a coach who...
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264 How to Enhance Focus, Motivation and Confidence
Demystifying Mental Toughness
Ensuring that your focus is placed on helpful things, that you stay motivated during difficult times and that your confidence levels remain steady and intact even when you lose form are seen as vitally important components being a top class athlete. In today’s episode, part 3 of David’s investigation into ChatGPT’s and its response to the question “What Can I Expect When Working With A Sport Psychologist” he goes on to share with you some helpful tools that you can help athletes in this context. Key Learning Points: Enhancing focus is a skill that can be developed by...
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263 30 Further Ideas to Aid Your Performance and Psychological Well-Being
Demystifying Mental Toughness
Welcome to episode #263 of the Demystifying Mental Toughness podcast. This week’s episode features lessons from the world of business and entrepreneurship as well as the military. Psychological well-being, mental health, mental fitness and self care are key topics that are highlighted. Enjoy! Connect with David Charlton , , and Other Valuable Resources Relevant Podcast Episodes in Order and Sequence as Relayed in Episode 263
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262 50 Ideas to Aid Your Performance and Psychological Well-Being
Demystifying Mental Toughness
In episode #262 of Demystifying Mental Toughness due to unforeseen circumstances David includes a large number of inspiring take home messages from guests that originated in episode 100 of the podcast. The takeaways that you will hear relate to the development of mental toughness, how you can deal better with stress and adversity. Coping with trauma and mental health challenges are also key features. Enjoy! Connect with David Charlton , , and Relevant Podcast Episodes in Order and Sequence as Relayed in Episode 262
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261 Why Are The Sporting Goals That You Set Yourself Not Helping You
Demystifying Mental Toughness
In part 2 of David’s exploration surrounding ChatGPT’s and its response to the question What Can I Expect When Working With A Sport Psychologist, David explores the complexities of goal setting. ChatGPT suggests setting SMART goals for performance and psychological well-being are part of working with a Sports Psychologist, which he is in agreement with. However, David points out that not all Sports Psychology practitioners are comfortable addressing psychological well-being. He goes on to emphasize the importance of goal ownership, discuss athlete’s tendencies to set goals, and the...
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260 What Can I Expect When Working With A Sport Psychologist – Part 1
Demystifying Mental Toughness
Today David starts the first of a series of episodes where he looks into ChatGPT’s explanations about the field of sport psychology and adds further detail to help inform you. ChatGPT states “working with a sport psychologist can offer a range of benefits and experiences. Here’s what you might expect: 1. Assessment - Initial sessions often involve assessments to understand your mental skills, strengths, and areas for improvement.” David goes on to add the following points to this explanation. Key Learning Points: When assessing a client needs it is important to...
info_outlineEmma Raducanu is a great example of someone whose career was on an upward trajectory, after winning the US Open tennis championship in 2021, aged 18 years old. Since then, her career has been dogged with setbacks and challenges. At Wimbledon this year it was nice to see her perform near to her potential reaching the last 16. Without knowing the detail of what has happened in Emma’s world since her big breakthrough I discuss as a Sport Psychologist the types things we may look at to help athletes such as Emma to rekindle their love for the sport and navigate the challenges that inevitably occur. You’ll note in the episode people are complex and supporting athletes in this way can be multifaceted with their unique experiences, personality, environmental preferences, support network and culture of the sport shaping our support.
Key Learning Points:
- When success arrives an athlete’s personal identity can shift a great deal.
- High and rigid expectations can cause athletes challenges as they come to terms with success.
- Self-esteem and mental health challenges can occur for some athletes when they don’t perform to the standards that they expect of themselves.
- Sports psychologist often use counselling style approaches to help athletes process difficult experiences and emotions associated with them.
- Clean language is a helpful too for practitioners to use during this process.
- Shifting expectations and talk of outcomes to small process goals can be beneficial for athletes to stay grounded and remain present.
- Visualisation can be a useful tool in rekindling thoughts and feelings associated with being in love with your sport.
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Related resources to help you navigate the challenges that sport provides.
Podcast Ep042: Mark Bennett MBE – Characteristics of High Performance Athletes
Podcast Ep140: Chris Cook – How to Improve Your Mental Strength: Secrets from an Olympian
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