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Foreword | p. ix |
Acknowledgements | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Knowing professional football | p. 9 |
Understanding the culture | p. 9 |
Setting the scene | p. 11 |
Previous encounters with sport psychologists | p. 12 |
Evidence of worth | p. 14 |
Are you worth it? | p. 15 |
Being one of the guys! | p. 16 |
We are the sport psychologists! | p. 17 |
Psychobabble | p. 18 |
Physician, heal thyself! | p. 20 |
Time famine | p. 21 |
Privacy | p. 21 |
Important but unwelcome | p. 23 |
Conclusions | p. 24 |
One-to-one sport psychology counselling | p. 27 |
Mental skills training | p. 30 |
Philosophical grounding | p. 31 |
Putting it into practice | p. 33 |
Performance or personal agenda? | p. 39 |
Living encounters | p. 43 |
Supporting the coaching team and developing the staff | p. 51 |
The sport psychologist as an organizational psychologist/human resource manager | p. 51 |
Encouraging 'buy in' from coaches and staff | p. 56 |
Job descriptions | p. 57 |
CPD | p. 60 |
Codes of conduct | p. 62 |
Away day rationale | p. 65 |
Away day activities | p. 66 |
Away day culture change | p. 70 |
Supporting the manager | p. 73 |
Developing the manager | p. 74 |
Professional and personal goals and ambitions | p. 81 |
Appraisal mechanisms | p. 86 |
Humility | p. 87 |
Identity | p. 89 |
Leadership | p. 91 |
Dealing with stress and anxiety | p. 98 |
Creating and managing the environment | p. 101 |
Developing human spirit | p. 103 |
Team building | p. 106 |
Providing a club chaplain | p. 108 |
Human spirit and religious spirituality | p. 115 |
When the banter stops | p. 120 |
The liaison officer | p. 123 |
Introduction | p. 123 |
Supporting the sport psychologist | p. 123 |
Doing the job | p. 126 |
Caring or performance focused | p. 128 |
Education and welfare officers | p. 135 |
Trust, values, confidentiality and identity | p. 137 |
Trust | p. 137 |
Trusting yourself | p. 138 |
Identity and trust | p. 142 |
Creating identity | p. 143 |
Inculcating the values of excellence | p. 146 |
Threat to values | p. 148 |
The importance of living your values | p. 151 |
Equality and values | p. 152 |
Meeting the person not the player! | p. 154 |
Values and identity | p. 159 |
Football lessons | p. 165 |
Implications for other professional team sports | p. 165 |
Making friends: the players | p. 167 |
Making friends: the staff | p. 170 |
Youthful energy | p. 172 |
The public | p. 174 |
X factor specialists | p. 175 |
Being a boffin | p. 176 |
Getting paid | p. 181 |
The big ten | p. 182 |
References | p. 191 |
Index | p. 199 |
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