The Gold Medal Profile for Sport Psychology (GMP-SP)

Durand‐Bush, Natalie; Baker, Joseph; Berg, Femke van den; Richard, Véronique; Bloom, Gordon A.

doi:10.1080/10413200.2022.2055224

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“…They specified that people with emotional competencies and resilience presented lower perceived stress. While there are now several models describing the benefits of, and approaches for, optimising resilience in athletes ( Bryan et al, 2019 ; den Hartigh et al, 2022 ; Durand-Bush et al, 2022 ; Sarkar and Page, 2022 )—and these may be potentially transferrable into emergency service settings—there remain uncertainties regarding the implementation of such programs into diverse cultures and context. Hence, there may be transferrable insights back into sport by examining how resilience and its key determinants are enacted in similar, high-stakes high-performance settings.…”

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Sustaining optimal performance when the stakes could not be higher: Emotional awareness and resilience in emergency service personnel (with learnings for elite sport)

Jacobs

Keegan

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Emergency services personnel are a high stress occupation, being frequently confronted with highly consequential stressors and expected to perform: without fault; under high pressure; and in unpredictable circumstances. Research often invokes similarities between the experiences of emergency services personnel and elite athletes, opening up the possibility of transferring learnings between these contexts. Both roles involve genuine risks to emotional wellbeing because their occupations involve significant stress. Similarly, both roles face obstacles and injury, and their “success” is dependent on high-quality execution of their skills under pressure. As such, both occupations are required to have resilience and effective coping abilities to ensure psychological well-being. Researchers suggest emotional awareness may be a key variable in the management and maintenance of resilience. This study: (1) explored the experiences of emergency services personnel; (2) characterised connections between emotional awareness and resilience; and (3) reflected on the ways these findings can be extrapolated to elite athletes. We analysed 11 interviews with emergency services personnel. Participants identified resilience as crucial when coping with stress, however, many defined resilience as remaining unaffected by stress rather than, for example, managing and responding to it. Participants defined emotional awareness as understanding their emotions, and they recognised associated benefits for coping, resilience, and burnout. Nevertheless, most participants did not engage in practices to improve their emotional awareness. Barriers, such as maladaptive beliefs and help-seeking stigma, interfered with participants’ ability to cultivate emotional awareness, to promote resilience. In contrast, some participants described profound improvements in resilience and coping following the cultivation of emotional awareness. This finding illustrates that systemic change must target the individual, team, and organisation to correct misperceptions about resilience, emotional awareness, and psychological help-seeking. Developing emotional awareness may help emergency services personnel and other high stress occupations like elite athletes process difficult experiences and enhance their resilience, promoting well-being, and career longevity.

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Sustaining optimal performance when the stakes could not be higher: Emotional awareness and resilience in emergency service personnel (with learnings for elite sport)

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Keegan

2022

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“…It involves cognitive processes such as attention, decision-making, perception, memory, reasoning, and coordination. It also encompasses key self-regulatory competencies such as goal-setting, planning, motivation, self-confidence, arousal/emotional/attentional control, imagery, self-talk, stress management, and evaluation ( Durand-Bush et al, 2022 ). Just as high-performance athletes work to enhance their physical and technical skills, they should also spend a significant amount of their training strengthening the mental skills required to be successful in their sport ( Calmels et al, 2003 ).…”

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“…The Gold Medal Profile for Sport Psychology (GMP-SP) is a recent framework depicting 11 mental performance competencies deemed essential to succeed in high-performance sport ( Durand-Bush et al, 2022 ). The model integrates fundamental competencies (i.e., motivation, confidence, and resilience), self-regulation competencies (i.e., self-awareness, stress management, emotion and arousal regulation, and attentional control), and interpersonal competencies (i.e., athlete-coach relationship, leadership, teamwork, and communication).…”

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“…Of importance, the GMP-SP highlights the interplay between mental performance and mental health. Mental health is featured as an overarching construct that influences the achievement of mental and athletic performance in high-performance sports ( Durand-Bush et al, 2022 ).…”

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“…In Canada, MPCs work closely with national teams as a part of an integrated support team (IST) to help athletes reach their performance potential. They assist them in developing a variety of mental performance competencies based on personal and sport-specific needs ( Durand-Bush et al, 2022 ). MPCs also play a role in promoting and fostering mental health, as highlighted by Durand-Bush and Van Slingerland (2021) .…”

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The Gold Medal Profile for Sport Psychology (GMP-SP)

Cited by 19 publications

References 63 publications

Sustaining optimal performance when the stakes could not be higher: Emotional awareness and resilience in emergency service personnel (with learnings for elite sport)

Sustaining optimal performance when the stakes could not be higher: Emotional awareness and resilience in emergency service personnel (with learnings for elite sport)

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Canadian national team athletes’ mental performance and mental health: The perspectives of mental performance consultants and mental health practitioners

Self-regulating recovery: Athlete perspectives on implementing recovery from elite endurance training

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