Mindfulness and acceptance basic principles and perspectives of a new approach in sport psychology training
- Mindfulness and acceptance describe the skills necessary to experience emotions and thoughts (e.g., performance-interfering cognitions) consciously and without judging them. This article introduces the mindfulness and acceptance approach and its potential in the context of competitive sports. Definitions as well as research results related to mechanisms of action and differential psychological aspects are given and the efficacy of the approach in the field of clinical psychology is reviewed. The rationale and implementation of the mindfulness-acceptance-commitment approach, an approach adapted for performance enhancement, is illustrated. Finally, evidence from psychotherapy research is presented, and a recommendation for the use of mindfulness and acceptance in the context of competitive sports is given.
| Author details: | Kathrin Heinz, Thomas Heidenreich, Franziska Wenhold, Ralf BrandORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1026/1612-5010/a000056 |
| ISSN: | 1612-5010 |
| Title of parent work (German): | Zeitschrift für Sportpsychologie |
| Publisher: | Hogrefe |
| Place of publishing: | Göttingen |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | German |
| Year of first publication: | 2011 |
| Publication year: | 2011 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/26 |
| Tag: | acceptance; mindfulness; psychological skills training |
| Volume: | 18 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Number of pages: | 10 |
| First page: | 145 |
| Last Page: | 154 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Sport- und Gesundheitswissenschaften |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Sportwissenschaft |
