Opportunities and Considerations of New Media and Technology in Sport Psychology Service Delivery

Price, David L.; Wagstaff, Christopher; Thelwell, Richard C.

doi:10.1080/21520704.2020.1846648

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“…Practitioners should ensure digital upskills to be effective in the online modality of support while keeping service delivery considerations of accessibility, working alliance, confidentiality, disinhibition, verbal/non-verbal cues, time delay, and technological issues in mind (cf. further open-access reading, Price et al, 2020 ).…”

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Sporting Resilience During COVID-19: What Is the Nature of This Adversity and How Are Competitive Elite Athletes Adapting?

Gupta

McCarthy

2021

Front. Psychol.

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The COVID-19 pandemic is a global health issue which has severely disrupted and deferred several landmark international sporting competitions. Like the general population, athletes have faced direct psychological consequences from COVID-19 in addition to cancelation of events, loss of support, lack of training, loss of earnings, hypervigilance, and anxiety among others. The aim of the present research was to identify the adversity experiences of athletes caused by COVID-19 (study 1) and explore the process of resilience used by competitive elite athletes for positive adaptation (study 2). Research has indicated psychological resilience to be a protective factor against similar adversities in the sporting context. The study uses an across-cases qualitative design comparing the real-time lived experiences of athletes during COVID-19 using narrative analysis. Data were collected from 10 competitive elite athletes from various countries, as part of a larger doctoral dissertation study during the lockdown period, using in-depth experiential interviews. Study 1 presents detailed narratives on the loss and incongruence, which were the two major adversities experienced. Study 2 outlines the process of resilience as narrated by the participants through the emergent and minimal-impact resilience trajectories. We discuss recommendations for interventions and the role of sports psychologists, coaches, and sporting organizations in ensuring athletes’ mental health and their rehabilitation into post-COVID sports life.

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Sporting Resilience During COVID-19: What Is the Nature of This Adversity and How Are Competitive Elite Athletes Adapting?

Gupta

McCarthy

2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…As such, we cautiously advocate for practitioners to consider using online interventions as part of their work. Online interventions can allow athletes greater flexibility, opportunity, and accessibility in engaging with psychological support (Price et al, 2022). Online resources also provide a means of reaching a large audience, supporting more athletes, and can be cost-effective.…”

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Effectiveness of an online acceptance and commitment therapy programme for perfectionism in soccer players: A randomized control trial.

Watson,

Hill,

Madigan

et al. 2024

Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology

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There is currently limited understanding of how to reduce perfectionism in sport. With research outside of sport as impetus, in the present study, we evaluated the effectiveness of an online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)-based intervention for reducing perfectionism and improving precompetition emotions in soccer players. Following a preregistered protocol, 81 female soccer players (M age = 24.28 years, SD = 6.77) were randomly allocated to either an intervention group (n = 41) or a waitlist control group (n = 40). The intervention group had access to a set of online ACT-based modules for 8 weeks. Athletes completed measures of trait perfectionism, perfectionism cognitions, and precompetition emotions preintervention and postintervention. A 2 (group) × 2 (time) analysis of variance revealed significant interaction effects for trait perfectionism, perfectionism cognitions, and precompetition emotions. Following the intervention, the two groups displayed significant mean differences for trait perfectionism, perfectionism cognitions, and almost all precompetition emotions. However, due to lower reliability of some instruments, findings regarding postcompetition emotions were discounted. The findings suggest that online ACT-based interventions may be a viable and effective way to reduce perfectionism in soccer players (but not necessarily improving precompetition emotions).

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“…27 Although there may be some disparity in access for remote areas, online delivery of SPS could be offered as a package to the national sporting organization who will likely have the technological resources even if individual athletes do not. Price et al 28 indicate that online service delivery is being used effectively with athletes in developed countries and have provided recommendations for remote service delivery to athletes by sport psychology consultants.…”

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Perceived benefits and receptivity to sport psychology consulting services of elite athletes in developing nations of the Oceania region

Neumann

Piatkowski

Moffitt

et al. 2023

International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching

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Sport psychology consulting services are commonly used by elite athletes in developed countries, but little is known about the athlete's perceptions of such services in developing countries. The present study examined the accessibility, receptivity, and perceived benefit of sport psychology services (via a sport psychology services questionnaire) through a cross-sectional survey of elite athletes ( N = 32; Mage = 23.06 years, SD = 5.81) from 12 nations of the Oceania region who participated in the Gather, Adjust, Prepare, Sustain programme. These nations were Vanuatu, Fiji, Tuvalu, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands, Norfolk Island, Niue, Nauru, Kiribati, Samoa, and Papua New Guinea. The results revealed that only a quarter of the athletes had ongoing access to sport psychology consulting services. Over half reported that they were receptive to sport psychology services and perceived that these types of services would be beneficial. The most desired services related to performance enhancement (e.g. performance under pressure). The athletes reported mixed levels of knowledge regarding mental skills, and most knowledge concerned the use of mental skills in competition. Specifically, most athletes rated their knowledge of mental skills at either the low (e.g. imagery) or high (e.g. goal setting, focus, and self-talk) range, and relatively fewer athletes rated their knowledge in the mid-range. The athletes demonstrated interest in learning more mental skills to enhance their performance. These findings indicate that a need exists for sport psychology service providers among athletes in the Oceania region. Existing non-local providers may also consider supplying services through digital modalities.

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Opportunities and Considerations of New Media and Technology in Sport Psychology Service Delivery

Cited by 28 publications

References 30 publications

Sporting Resilience During COVID-19: What Is the Nature of This Adversity and How Are Competitive Elite Athletes Adapting?

Sporting Resilience During COVID-19: What Is the Nature of This Adversity and How Are Competitive Elite Athletes Adapting?

Effectiveness of an online acceptance and commitment therapy programme for perfectionism in soccer players: A randomized control trial.

Perceived benefits and receptivity to sport psychology consulting services of elite athletes in developing nations of the Oceania region

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