Applied Psychology Practice in Professional Sport: Meeting the Person, Knowing the Athlete

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Mark Nesti (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)

Applied Psychology Practice in Professional Sport

Meeting the Person, Knowing the Athlete

Mark Nesti (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)

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Routledge
10 December 2024

Psychology; Sports psychology; Football (Soccer, Association football)

Applied Psychology Practice in Professional Sport is the first text to draw directly on psychological work delivered over many years to individual players and staff inside English Premier League Football as well as other professional sports, such as cricket, tennis, and golf.

A key feature of this new text is the use of examples from the author’s applied practice, to demonstrate that many psychological terms and words used in the “lived world” of high-level professional sport, can be understood with greater depth and meaning where these are informed by more holistic perspectives such as existential, phenomenological, transpersonal and humanistic psychology. Implications for applied sport psychology practice are examined and recommendations offered.

Although the book is about professional sport and psychology and is key readings for those associated within this discipline, the ideas and concepts discussed should be familiar to anyone involved in supporting people in challenging performance focused environments such as, business, education, or coaching professions. It is hoped that leaders, managers and other staff from these occupations, and closely related sectors, will find the book interesting and useful.

By: Mark Nesti (Liverpool John Moores University UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032669960
ISBN 10: 1032669969
Pages: 186
Publication Date: 10 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

1. Introduction Part I: Key Psychological Qualities 2. Courage 3. Belief 4. Passion 5. Flow Play and Happiness Part II: Major Existential Themes 6. Identity and Meaning 7. Authenticity 8. Spirit 9. Anxiety 10. Paradoxical Leadership: Learning from the Best

Mark Nesti, PhD recently retired as Associate Professor: Psychology in Sport, and MSc Sports Psychology programme head at Liverpool John Moores University. He has published seven books during his career, including the first book in the world on existential psychology and sport, an account of his organizational psychology practice inside English Premier League football, and three books on Sport, Spirituality, Psychology and Meaning. Formerly he worked as a Sports Council regional officer and Sports development manager and has also been an applied psychology consultant with six Premier League teams, Yorkshire County Cricket Club, and worked with hundreds of Professional athletes and coaches from other sports during a 35-year career. Mark currently works as a consultant at his own company, Sportinspirit Limited, delivering psychology support to professional teams and sport performers.