Tag: Marc Jones

Stress, Well-Being, and Performance in Sport, edited by Rachel Arnold and David Fletcher (Routledge) provides a comprehensive and contemporary overview of stress in sport and its implications on performance and well-being. Our reviewer is sport psychology professor Henrik Gustafsson. He would have loved to read this book as an undergraduate student and coach in cross-country skiing; as a professor he contends that this is the book to go to for insights about stress in sport.

Psychology of Sport and Exercise is an international forum for scholarly reports in the psychology of sport and exercise, broadly defined. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: PSYCHO-PERCEPTUAL-MOTOR SKILLS ARE DEEMED CRITICAL TO SAVE THE PENALTY CORNER IN INTERNATIONAL FIELD HOCKEY by Khaya Morris-Binelli, Fleur E.C.A. van Rens, Sean Müller, Simon M. Rosalie.

Psychology of Sport and Exercise is an international forum for scholarly reports in the psychology of sport and exercise, broadly defined. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: THE REBALANCING ACT: INJURED VARSITY WOMEN ATHLETES’ EXPERIENCES OF GLOBAL AND SPORT PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING by Lisa R. Trainor, Peter R.E. Crocker, Andrea Bundon, Leah Ferguson.

This book uses contemporary theory and research to elucidate key concepts and applied interventions. It includes world-leading expert commentaries of contemporary theoretical and applied approaches in understanding critical issues in soccer, and provides practical implications and insights into working effectively in soccer-related contexts. It will be a vital resource for researchers, practitioners, and coaches within the area of sport psychology and related disciplines.

The Sport Psychologist is a scholarly refereed journal designed as a forum to stimulate thought and disseminate knowledge that focuses on the application and practice of sport psychology. A special emphasis of the journal is on the delivery of psychological services to practitioners such as athletes and coaches.

Coping är vad det handlar om när idrottares emotionella uttryck ska kontrolleras och, ibland, kunna vändas till hans eller hennes fördel. (John McEnroe dyker osökt upp i tanken.) Den här problematiken behandlas i Joanne Thatchers, Marc Jones’ och David Lavallees antologi Coping and Emotion in Sport (Routledge), som vi gav till Christian Augustsson, vars läsning gett upphov till en genomgående positiv recension.

Magnus Lindwall Psykologiska institutionen, Göteborgs universitet  Jamie Barker, Paul McCarthy, Marc Jones & Aidan Moran Single-Case Research Methods in Sport and Exercise Psychology 206 sidor, hft. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge 2011 ISBN 978-0-415-56512-7 ”Syftet...