Books in the Routledge Psychology of Sport, Exercise and Physical Activity series

This ground-breaking book is the first to offer cutting-edge knowledge about contemporary theoretical, methodological, and applied issues with the contributions of leading researchers and practitioners in the field. Feeling states in sports are comprehensively covered by adopting an international and multi-disciplinary perspective.

Critical Perspectives in Sport Injury Psychology aims to engage in more intense debates about sport injury psychology by turning a more critical eye towards it. It challenges the field¿s traditions and practices by drawing from different disciplines, paradigms, and theories.

Critical Perspectives in Sport Injury Psychology aims to engage in more intense debates about sport injury psychology by turning a more critical eye towards it. It challenges the field¿s traditions and practices by drawing from different disciplines, paradigms, and theories.

This book considers the applications of persuasion frameworks and reviews the major developments in communication topics within activity-related contexts. International experts offer theoretical overviews, agendas for future research and insights into contemporary research and practical implications.

This is the first book to bring together the reflections of international experts and practitioners using REBT in the field, to discuss the use of REBT in sport and exercise. It offers case-studies to give a rare and detailed insight into the use of REBT in sport and exercise across a diverse range of issues.

Stress, Well-Being, and Performance in Sport provides the first comprehensive and contemporary overview of stress in sport and its implications on performance and well-being. It explores how athletes', coaches, and support staff's performance can be enhanced while simultaneously optimizing their well-being in contemporary sport.

Athlete Transitions into Retirement provides contemporary viewpoints on athlete transitions from elite sport in a global context. This volume is a collaboration of research from leading authors around the world, offering global perspectives to athlete transitions into retirement.

Analytical Psychology of Football provides for youth trainers, accessible, scientifically based tools and techniques to develop resilence and sustain motivation in grass roots and elite footballers.

This book explores the strategies and techniques that facilitate the performance and learning of closed self-paced motor tasks. Included in the instructional-psychological routines discussed are pre-performance, focusing attention, motor imagery, enhanced expectancies, autonomy support, gaze strategies, self-talk, and periodization.