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Few questions at sport psychologists

Published on December 4, 2019 in Generale, Mental coaching and Stress. 0 Comments Tags: competenze, domande, psicologo, psicologo dello sport.

A few questions to sports psychologists, which will be discussed in the next future, in the meantime find your answers:

Why should an athlete learn to relax?
Why are routines useful if no one teaches them to athletes in training?
Why is it better to think that we will be able to achieve our goals but it will still be very difficult?
Why do you have to learn to put the maximum of attention even in boring workouts?
Why isn’t winning everything even if you compete to win?
Why is it useless to ask for more attention?
Why can’t you motivate someone to do something?
What makes a top-level athlete realise that you are a top-level psychologist?
What is excellence for you?
Can you distinguish the needs of a good athlete (national level) from a better athlete (international level) and a champion (top level in his sport)?
How good do you want to become as a sports psychologist and how will you know that you have succeeded?

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Italian Football Association open its doors to the sport psychologists

Published on December 22, 2015 in Allenatori, Calcio, Generale, Giovani and Young and Football. 0 Comments Tags: clinica, formazione, master, psicologo dello sport, psicoterapia, Scuola.

Waiting that the role of sport psychologist is required again among the requested criteria to become in Italy Elite Football School, the youth and school department of the Italian Football Association has nevertheless made a significant step forward in the recognition of this professional. It has decided and informed the football schools that the choice of the psychologist to use in the clubs will take place only among those who attended a master’s degree in sport psychology. Therefore, from next year it will not be enough to be graduated in psychology but it will need to have a title proving to have this specific training in sport psychology. The recognition of the specificity of this professional field is important because as with the doctor there are specific skills that the psychologists ignore and instead are needed to work with the young children and adolescents and there are clinical or psychotherapeutic skills to be used by the psychologists must be adequate to the sport context in which they will work.

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The issues of the high level shooters

Published on August 21, 2014 in Mental coaching, Stress and Tiro a volo. 0 Comments Tags: mental coaching, psicologo dello sport, stress, tiro a volo.

Today I am at a shooting international competition in Todi (Italy) and athletes of different nationalities, from Iran to Great Britain have asked me about their difficulties face in the race, here are a few:

What should I do first when for a while I forget what I have to do?
What do I do to remove the panic that sometimes comes over me?
What I have to do not think of breaking the target and be focused only on my performance?
Which are the skills of clay shooting champions?
How do I know I am ready before to start?
I have not always the same time to shoot, what I have to do to be more consistent?
After a mistake I get too nervous, how can I control myself better?

These questions highlight how the difficulties of international level athletes are specific and require that the sport psychologist has specific knowledge of this sport. As psychologists, we must not only provide global responses based on the idea that we must improve the confidence of these athletes, as these questions are asked by athletes who are the best in their country and are used to compete, but this in itself does not eliminate these difficulty.

What do you think?

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The integration of the sport psychologist in a football school: 10 rules to follow

Published on August 18, 2014 in Allenatori, Calcio, Giovani and Young and Football. 0 Comments Tags: integrazione, psicologo dello sport, scuola calcio.

Working with children and young people introducing them to the world of football requires the involvement of several professionals committed to create the proper environment for the sport and psychological growth of young football players. Sometimes this job becomes difficult if it’s not handled with clarity and respect for the role of each expert. The key word in these actions is integration. During these years, I have learned, that the sport psychologist who is working with a football school must follow 10 basic rules to integrate himself into the staff including coaches, managers and parents.

Know the context
Joining the staff
Start from the demands
Knowing the language (technical terms, jargon, examples)
Help in the enhancement of existing roles
Use specific psychological tools
Producing visible results
Working with mediation
Escaping from the stereotype of Mental Health Care
Get on the field

The sports psychologist should not be just a phantom written only in the federal documents, but an expert integrated in the football team, so that the club could actually take an add value from thes kills he/she can lead.

(by Daniela Sepio)

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The sport psychologist in young football

Published on June 26, 2014 in Calcio, Generale, Giovani and Young and Football. 0 Comments Tags: Calcio, psicologo dello sport, young football.

In our country the Italian Football Federation is the only sport federation that makes mandatory the presence of a sport psychologist for clubs wishing to reach the title of qualified football school. Sport psychologist in football school speaks in support of different professional roles. He deals with psychological problems with methods and specific tools. The final objective pursued by the sport psychologist is to create a common language among all, that will help all to go in the same direction, building an environment which offers the best sport experiences. The sport psychologist works with the athletes to encourage them as individual, encouraging cohesion, working on motivation. She works with the technical staff to improve their collaboration, to promote effective communication, child development, group dynamics, relationship management. He speaks with the parents about the relevance of supporting educational values and the fun.

The great relevance of social and sports impact of youth football in Italy and the space for the sport psychologist is made even more clear by its numbers

Clubs of youth and: 2.916
Young players: 619. 510
Coaches enabled FIGC: 61.114

(Source: FIGC- data on 30 June 2010)

(by Daniela Sepio)

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The sport psychologist role in the national team

Published on September 26, 2013 in Olimpiadi and Stress. 0 Comments Tags: atleti, competenze, nazionale, olimpiadi, psicologo dello sport, ruolo, squadra.

It was held at the Sports School of Italian Olympic Committee a workshop about the role of different professionals, who work in the national team before and during major sport events. In relation to the role of the sport psychologist I have highlighted what are the main activities to be carried out:

The essential psychological preparation has been carried out previously
Do not introduce new strategies and procedures, but to help athletes to follow their habits
The psychologist should not be obsessed with “doing”
Provide 24 hours of service and availability to advise in any environment
The sport psychologist must be prepared to the uniqueness of the Olympic Games
Follow the program prepared earlier
Being responsive and effective
Promote the use of routine and daily plans
Help athletes stay focused on the competition without being distracted from the atmosphere of the Olympic village
Helping athletes and coaches not to put too much emphasis on race
Helping the team to create a positive atmosphere and facilitating effective solutions
Being psychologically prepared to support the coaches
Develop strategies for the management of interpersonal relationships
Check and manage the interpersonal communication between staff members: free time management, relations with the head of team delegation and federal managers, media management

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Beyond the traditional PST training

Published on May 18, 2013 in Generale. 0 Comments Tags: competenze, David Tod, Insep, Parigi, psicologo dello sport, sport.

On the fourth day of “International Sport Psychology Week” at INSEPin Paris, David Tod talked about how the psychological consulting work with athletes now goes beyond the traditional teaching relaxation techniques, visualization, self-talk and so on but it must include an approach even more specific. This approach involves an extension of the sports psychologist skills to address the changes that have occurred today in lifestyles, in the growing complexity of the sporting career and the needs of high-level athletes. Then request the psychologist greater expertise to understand the needs of his/her clients, to show more and more competences in interpersonal communication and to understand the performer not only in relation to the needs of the sporting life but also in relation to the global life.

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Scuole calcio e psicologo dello sport

Published on August 4, 2011 in Generale. 0 Comments Tags: psicologo dello sport, scuole calcio.

Ci sono anche le buone notizie per gli psicologi dello sport. Una Scuola Calcio del Milan di Frascati ha inserito per la prima volta nel suo depliant che: “Lo staff dirigenziale di rilievo è supportato da uno Psicologo dello Sport” e con sottolineaando il concetto che il calcio è un gioco, riporta anche il decalogo della Carta dei diritti dei bambini e dei ragazzi allo sport, in cui al primo posto vi è “il diritto di divertirsi.” Mi sembra un ottimo esempio di come si possa pubblicamente proporre un approccio in cui si evidenzia il ruolo dello sviluppo psicologico e non solo quello dell’apprendimento tecnico. E’ certo che vi saranno in Italia altri esempi altrettanto positivi, intanto di questo si sa oggi. Perchè va ricordato che gli psicologi troppo spesso tendono a non fare conoscere e condividere le esperienze professionalmente positive in cui sono coinvolti. Vedi: http://www.lupafrascatiscuolacalcio.it/organigramma.asp

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