Description
1. Select an individual (Naomi Osaka) with whom you as a group have some familiarity and design a Psychological Skills Training Program to assist in their learning and performance.
2. This individual must be a real person, and as a group, you must explain the reason for their selection. You will need to identify their strengths, weaknesses, and overall PST program objectives. This individual does not have to be directly sport related, but should be involved in some physical, movement, stress related environment.
3. You must apply each of the following seven psychological tools, explaining the reason and expected outcome. In addition, you must organize your program into the three phases of PST as described in our readings and listed below.
Psychological Skills Training (PST)
The systematic practice of mental training skills that helps your performance and enjoyment. The goals are to increase control, commitment, challenge, and or confidence, i.e., mental toughness. Thus, as the ultimate goal, to develop self-regulation. A key feature of a successful PST is the performers ability to detach from previous experiences, either positive or negative. Detachment is a skill that must be taught as a component of your program. Included in your presentation must be detachment research, and your strategy for teaching and implementing this psychological skill.
The Program:
- Behavior Modification
To change an individual’s behavior and reaction to both positive and negative experiences.
Reinforcement, backwards chaining, shaping, goal-setting for target behaviors - Cognitive Evaluation Theory
Changing thinking, behavior, and emotional responses developing a list of errors in thinking,
assessing/developing intrinsic motivation, perception of competence, self-determination, and controlling and informational aspects of rewards - Rational Emotive therapy
People get upset by how they construct their views and the feeling, and language they use.
To evaluate illogical, unrealistic self-defeating interpretations and assumptions .Through behavior modification techniques (homework assignments), people begin to see and accept reality, apply useful self- evaluation .change the perceptions develop what can be called a map of consciousness: understanding that various thoughts are unhealthy and produce negative outcomes, stress etc., while other thoughts produce understanding, reason and a platform for successful learning and performance
- Goal-setting
Obtaining a specific standard of proficiency, outcome based and task based - Attentional control
Concentration – selecting and maintaining focus on relevant cues, filtering irrelevant cues, and shifting attentional focus. - Progressive muscle relaxation
Strategies to help release and control tension, breadth control, bio-feedback, stress inoculation
training - Systematic desensitization
Assist in overcoming stress and anxiety, stress reduction techniques to help overcome anxiety producing situations and/or events.
Clearly detail your plan of action in each phase:
Education Phase The idea here is for the individual to become familiar with Psychological Skills Training (PST) and to understand how mental training can help their performance. In addition, the “coach” becomes familiar with the individual’s problem, goals, and needs.
Acquisition Phase The individual and the coach select mental training strategies from the PST and practice the techniques for learning these strategies.
Practice Phase Here the individual learns to automate the mental training skills, apply these skills to practice settings, and simulate actual competition settings.
