فهرست مطالب frank jing-horng lu

The purpose of this study was to research the subjective experiences of an athlete during practice match competitions and to examine the potential usefulness of an adapted MAC intervention in addressing the emotional difficulties of the athlete. We investigated the usefulness of a 12-session MAC program altered for educational purposes and presented data as a case study. The case study suggested that the athlete experienced a multitude of anxiety while practicing match competitions; the athlete typically avoided these emotional difficulties and engaged in avoidant behaviors; an adapted MAC approach for educational purposes could be helpful to help the athletes accept private events, commit to performance-related behaviors, and engage more frequently to performance under pressure. More could be done to address the needs of athletes experiencing performance anxiety beyond the structure of our 12-session educational intervention. We concluded that the MAC-based intervention, to a certain extent, educated the athlete about how to meet the challenges of performance difficulties, commit to values-driven behavior, and exhibit behaviors that would potentially permit optimal performance.

 Language, the most important means for sharing information between sport psychologist and athletes, has a fundamental role in conceptualizing the issues and formulating interventions. Due to perceptual limitations, initial changes naturally occur in the meaning of the sensory information that enters the nervous system. The second stage of transforming meanings occurs when the clients interpret the received information and verbalize it. This paper aims to evaluate the implications of spoken language in the transformational grammar approach to improve sports performance by gaining a more comprehensive understanding of the clients and increasing the effectiveness of the interventions.

 This paper is a commentary on the role of language in counseling sport psychology.

 This paper introduces the use of transformational grammar and clearing meanings in language.

 Clearing the meanings of the language that athletes use in counseling sessions would contribute to a comprehensive understating of the actual difficulties that athletes face. Also, clearing language may prepare the ground for achieving the goals of the particular intervention through raising self-awareness and reframing thoughts.