Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury
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Contents

  • Introduction and guidance
    • What is a badged course?
    • How to get a badge
  • Introduction
  • 1 What is sport injury?
    • 1.1 Sport injury case studies
  • 2 Injury and psychology
  • 3 Experiences of sport injury
    • 3.1 The two aspects of sport injury psychology
  • 4 This session’s quiz
  • 5 Summary of Session 1
  • Introduction
  • 1 Sport injury: a biopsychosocial approach
  • 2 The team around the injured person
    • 2.1 The multidisciplinary support team
  • 3 Professional boundaries in sport and exercise psychology
  • 4 This session’s quiz
  • 5 Summary of Session 2
  • Introduction
    • 1 Causes of sport injury
    • 2 Which psychological factors increase injury risk?
  • 3 How can stress increase the risk of injury?
    • 3.1 Other proposed stress-injury mechanisms
  • 4 How can personality increase the risk of injury?
  • 5 This session’s quiz
  • 6 Summary of Session 3
  • Introduction
  • 1 Why would psychological interventions work?
  • 2 What psychological interventions?
  • 3 Are psychological interventions effective?
  • 4 This session’s quiz
  • 5 Summary
  • Introduction
  • 1 How does sport injury make people feel?
    • 1.1 Lois and Travis: coping with sport injury
  • 2 Predicting how individuals will respond to sport injury
  • 3 Applying models of psychological response to sport injury
  • 4 This session’s quiz
  • 5 Summary of Session 5
  • Introduction
  • 1 Psychology, coping and outcomes
    • 1.1 Lois’s experience
    • 1.2 Travis’s experience
  • 2 Do reactions to injury change over time?
  • 3 Sport injury-related growth
  • 4 This session’s quiz
  • 5 Summary of Session 6
  • Introduction
  • 1 The benefits of sport psychology intervention
  • 2 Imagery in sport injury rehabilitation
  • 3 Self-talk and sport injury rehabilitation
    • 3.1 Self-talk in practice
  • 4 Relaxation techniques and sport injury rehabilitation
    • 4.1 Relaxation in practice
  • 5 This session’s quiz
  • 6 Summary of Session 7
  • Introduction
  • 1 Coping with sport injury
  • 2 Goal setting and sport injury rehabilitation
    • 2.1 Effective goal setting
  • 3 Social support in sport injury rehabilitation
    • 3.1 Social support in practice
  • 4 Reflection: What can you do to support an injured person?
  • 5 This session’s quiz
  • 6 Summary
  • Where next?
  • Tell us what you think
  • References
  • Further Reading
  • Acknowledgements

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