Performance Psychology in Action A Casebook for Working With Athletes, Performing Artists, Business Leaders, and Professionals in High-Risk Occupations

by Hays, Kate F.

• ISBN13: 9781433804434
• ISBN10: 1433804433
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-15
• Publisher: American Psychological Association

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Author Biography

Kate F. Hays, PhD, maintains an independent practice, The Performing Edge, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with a specialized focus on performance enhancement for athletes, performing artists, and businesspeople. She earned her master's and doctorate from Boston University in 1971. In New Hampshire, following her graduate training, she directed a community mental health center and subsequently developed an individual and group private practice. Her research, writing, teaching, and practice, both in New Hampshire and, since 1997, in Toronto, have been directed toward the mental benefits of physical activity and the application of sport psychology techniques to other performance populations as well as athletes. Dr. Hays is the author of Working It Out: Using Exercise in Psychotherapy; Move Your Body, Tone Your Mood; and (with co-author Charles H. Brown Jr.) You're On! Consulting for Peak Performance; and edited Integrating Exercise, Sports, Movement and Mind: Therapeutic Unity. A former president of American Psychological Association's Division of Exercise and Sport Psychology, she is the recipient of its Bruce Ogilvie Award for Professional Practice.
 

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 3
Mental Attributes For Peak Performance
The "Canon" of Psychological Skills Training for Enhancing Performance	p. 11
Emotional Intelligence	p. 35
Confidence	p. 57
Mental Preparation, Memorization, and Improvisation	p. 77
Performance Challenges
Performance Anxiety	p. 101
Audition Anxiety	p. 121
Working With Perfection	p. 139
Competition	p. 161
Performance-Related Consequences
Eating Disorders	p. 183
Isolation	p. 203
Overtraining, Burnout, Injury, and Retirement	p. 225
The Consultant And The System
Adolescent Performers and the Family System	p. 247
Team Leadership	p. 269
Hierarchical Public Safety Organizations	p. 289
Conclusion
The Consultant as a Performer	p. 309
Index	p. 329
About The Editor	p. 337
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