Evidence-Based Applied Sport Psychology by Carlstedt Roland A.;

Author:Carlstedt, Roland A.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Evidence-Based Applied Sport Psychology
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated
Published: 2012-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

ECOLOGICAL VALIDITY-MT DELIVERY/APPLICATION MODEL

MT should for the most part be taught to and carried out by an athlete in a realistic as possible environment, one that at minimum simulates that which one will encounter during real competition and, ideally, during real-official competition. Simulated and real competition situations are examples of more ecologically valid MT contexts or environments. As previously mentioned, the vast majority of MT and intervention sessions are carried out in the office, with practitioners rarely going to the playing field to administer and assess the efficiency and efficacy of MT attempts. It is just assumed that MT or an intervention will work, that what has been taught and supposedly learned will generalize to and be self-applied by an athlete during actual competition. Although cursory attempts to observe and evaluate MT may be done occasionally, high evidentiary, gold standard MT delivery and analysis services must involve systematic pre-intervention–intervention phase comparisons on the basis of psychological/psychophysiological and performance outcome measures and data that is derived during simulation, practice, and ultimately real or official competition. Even if a practitioner is incapable of obtaining mind–body measures, such a pre-game/match, during game/match, and post-game/match HRV, for whatever reason (usually due to not being trained in applied psychophysiology) meticulous pre- versus post-criticality and other micro-sport-specific statistical analyses must be undertaken to bring accountability and clarity to the MT-intervention process.

Ecological validity is a vital prerequisite for high evidentiary athlete assessment and intervention. Athlete consulting that does not predominantly involve ecological approaches can be considered substandard.

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