Sports injury

Question 1

to be an applied and registered psychologist

Answer 1

1600 hours and an interview

Question 2

hardi ind

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when confronted with stressful changes, disruptions, or failures, react with a renewed attempt to control the situation and appraise the experience as interesting and worthwhile and concentrated on the growth in knowledge and wisdom that is taking place

Question 3

stress

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imbalance between the demands that someone feels that his/her feelings of capability to meet those demands

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anxiety

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a state consisting of psychological and physical symptoms, brought about by a sense of apprehension of a perceived threat - fight or flight

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cognitive arousal time lines

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mental arousal 10-14 days before an event

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somatic arousal timelines

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butterflies, sweaty palms, 24 hours before competition then 1 hour to right before the event

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trait arousal

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all the time

Question 8

hardiness and anxiety

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they have less, combination of attitudes provide necessary courage, motivation and capability to turn developmental and environmental stressors into opportunities for growth

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3 steps to hardiness

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Commitment - goal and commit, have a plan
control - look at what you can control and control it
challenge - how you help people look at obstacles as an opportunity for growth

Question 10

michael jordan

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i’ve failed over and over again in my life and thats why im succeeded

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growth

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risks and failures are opportunities for growth, the ability to bounce back

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what did you not do because you were afraid?

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you didnt want to look incompetent,

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get an ind to be hardi

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reframe their mindset to get uncomfortable

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emergent therapy

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put them in anxiety situations so they have to cope with it - cut the weak links so you get used to it and is not triggered

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young players

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people dont leave things to chance - they do everything possible to succeed
anxious/performance anxiety because they didnt think they were prepared - skipped out on elite training and visualization and relaxation can only get you so far.
self awareness to manage anxiety but still execute

Question 16

3 characteristics for goal setting

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provide direction
play an important role in cognition and problem solving
important for outcome evaluation
*cant get back on track if you dont know where you’re going

Question 17

types of goals

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SMART - specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely
outcome - win/lose
performance - be able to do this (within your control)
process - what youre gonna do to get there

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goal setting and stress

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less because you know you have done everything you could do so now focus on everything you can do

Question 19

why do we feel incompetent

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people get rewarded in public what they do in private

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cognitive distortions

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inaccurate thoughts that are used to reinforce negative thinking or emotions

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common cognitive distortions (15 but 5)

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filtering
black and white 
overgeneralization 
jumping to conclusions 
carastrophizing

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filtering

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filtering out all the pos, everything you didnt do

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black and white thinking

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you won or you lost, doesnt matter you beat you PB you lost so you suck

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overgeneraliztion

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you missed one you will miss all

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jumping to conclusions

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not going to talk to the coach because you know what they are going to say

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catastrophizing

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miss a shot you get lost in your head and miss another one

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to counter cognitive distortions

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write down all your negative thoughts and think of a positive one to challenge everyone

Question 28

traumatic sporting experience

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any life event causing significant physical and or emotional injury and distress, in which the person powerfully experience being overwhelmed, helpless, trapped, can become a traumatic experience

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what can cause traumatic sporting experience

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sprains, concussions, torn ligaments, broken bones, witnessing another athlete get badly injured

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Roots of significant problem in an athlete's performance

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sport trauma history esp injuries with simultaneous physical/emotional traumas

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reminiscing a traumatic event can

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trigger anxiety

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what can one to to get rid of the traumatic anxiety

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EMDR resensitizing treatment that taps into CNS to access memories and refile so they dont trigger responses

Question 33

8 impacts of injuries

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grief/loss - feelings if not dealt with loss of anything important complicated grief causes stress tense muscles - elevated stress does not help with healing elevated stress response injury produces immediate imbalance in athlete's life chronic pain can alter moods, disturb sleep, affect cognitive processes and profoundly affect relationships

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3 pronged approach of coping with injury

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focus on physical problem focus on emotional strategies reframing and distraction

Question 35

strategy for injury rehab

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set goals - treatment options - what can YOU do and what CAN you do do the other part of the body come up with a plan for the season, dont treat yourself like litmus paper and have control by doing things that you can do

Question 36

whats detrimental to the injured athlete

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lack of structure and disconnection to the team

Question 37

visualization and imagery

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one of the most important mental skills

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6 things athletes use visualization for

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``` prepare for competition deal with errors in technique learn new skills relaxation increase motivation attention/focus ```

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what do you create in visualization

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functional equivalence to fire all the synapses in your train to trick your brain into thinking that the imagery is the experience

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relaxation

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calm mind cant have a restless body so promote rest, recovery and recuperation removal of stress related reactions like increased muscle tension

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what has an increased receptivity to positive mental image

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physical and mental state

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what to establish before warming up for a competition

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set level of physical and mental arousal

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how to get from fight flight freeze to rest and digest

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4 second breaths for 5 minutes

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progressive muscle relaxation

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somatic anxiety active contracting and relaxing of muscles 4-6 seconds then relax

Question 45

everything you need is already inside -

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look at what you did not do well and do it better