Sport & Performance Psychology for Clinicians

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Carly Hunt, PhD Related seminars and products

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Dr. Carly Hunt, is a sport and health psychologist, author of Train Your Brain to Beat Chronic Pain: How to Harness the Power of the Mind-Body Connection, and former division 1 golfer. She helps teams, leaders, coaches, and organizations maximize their performance and well-being. Dr. Hunt received her PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Maryland, MA in Kinesiology from the University of Maryland, and completed her postdoctoral fellowship in biobehavioral pain research from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She is the founder of Present Mind Consulting LLC, a practice focused on helping clients optimize health and performance, and Thinkbettergolf, a consulting practice that provides golf psychology services to dedicated players.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Carly Hunt maintains a private practice, is a consultant with The Mindside, LLC., and an advisor with Steel, LLC. She has has employment relationships with John Hopkins School of Medicine and Mindflow. She receives royalties as a published author. Carly Hunt receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Carly Hunt is a member of the United States Association for the Study of Pain, the International Association for the Study of Pain, and the APA Division 17 and 38.

 

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Objectives

1. Identify risk and resilience factors that impact performance under pressure, including mental health concerns and socioenvironmental factors.
2. Choose psychological skills training interventions that can regulate emotions to manage overwhelming feelings.
3. Utilize acceptance-based interventions that can help clients expand their identity beyond sport.
4. Use positive psychological interventions to help clients manage pressure.
5. Examine ways of addressing physical health factors, including pain, in high performers.
6. Develop a person-centered treatment plan that incorporates evidence-based strategies to help clients enhance their performance under pressure.

Outline

The Mind-Body Connection: How Psychosocial Factors Impact Performance

• How to recognize psychology v situational risk factors
  • Fear of failure, performance anxiety, self-talk, and more
• Resiliency factors: psychology v contextual, how to support both
  • Team culture, self-confidence, effective preparation, and more
• The relationship between elite performance and psychomotor efficiency
• “Choking” in performance, what it means and how it happens
• Identify where clients are on the continuum of mental health and performance

Psychological Skills Training (PST) to Enhance Performance and Well-being in Athletes

• Setting the stage for PST: Help clients understand their ideal mindset
• Effective goal-setting including process and outcome goals
• Use imagery to support performance
• Build self-talk habits that promote best performance and resilience
• The importance of deliberate practice
• See competitive situations as a challenge as opposed to a threat
• Emotion regulation practices to help manage overwhelming feelings
• Help clients delineate what is within their control and what not
• Demonstration/Guided Practice on Imagery Practice

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to Clarify Values & Guide Actions

• Clarify clients’ values in athletic contexts as a compass to guide their actions
• Teach the benefits of mindfulness and skills they can use right away
• Explore willingness with clients
• Develop a values-based action plan for competition with clients
• Teach clients feeling and acting with confidence
• Help clients expand their identity beyond sport through self-as-context
• Live Demonstrations and Writing Exercise

Positive Psychology to Increase Enjoyment & Encourage a Growth Mindset

• Gratitude practices to manage pressure and cultivate joy
• Evidence journaling for shifting the negativity bias
• Relate to mistakes using a growth mindset
• Counsel athlete clients using a strengths-based approach
• Positive Psychology Writing Exercise

Neuroscience, Pain & Physical Health

• Be able to talk about pain, injury, and health behaviors
• Easy-to-understand metaphors about pain for psychoeducation
• Create holistic, biopsychosocial pain recovery plans
• Foster client engagement in the recovery process

Performance Psychology for Non-Athlete Performers: From the C-Suite to the Symphony

• Explore performance psychology across multiple contexts
• Know your patient population and take a person-centered approach
• The skills and dynamics associated with good leadership
• Healthy habits and emotion regulation and responding instead of reacting
• Help leaders hold people accountable while maintaining empathy and connection
• Guided Practice

Social Factors in High-Performance Cultures

• Traditional sports psychology versus contextual influences
• Help clients recognize the impact of contextual and sociopolitical factors
• Understand the coach-athlete relationship: touch coaching versus abuse
• Help high-performers express their needs assertively

Helping Clients with Maladaptive Perfectionism and High Inner Criticism

• Key self-compassion practices for perfectionism
• How to use language consistent with high-performance cultures
• Tackling social media use and tendency to compare oneself to others
• Discussion: Managing the inner critic, what works?

Target Audience

• Counsellors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Psychotherapists
• Therapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Addiction Counsellors
• Case Managers
• Physicians
• Nurses
• Other Mental Health Professionals