What is it about?
This user-friendly book is an introduction to the mindful sport performance enhancement (MSPE) mental training program. It also addresses applications of mindfulness to performance more broadly. The full MSPE training protocol is included, as are supplemental resources, descriptions of the underlying science, best-practices for MSPE participants and instructors, and case studies from the first-person perspectives of an athlete and a coach.
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Why is it important?
This book is the definitive guide to mindful sport performance enhancement (MSPE), providing useful, engaging information for readers about this new, exciting direction in sport psychology. It is a unique resource within the field of sport psychology, in providing comprehensive information about an intervention program, as well as readily understandable descriptions of the underlying science, applications of the program, and future directions. Sports scientists, psychologists, students, athletes, coaches, sports administrators, and others all can benefit from the content.
Perspectives
Writing this book was a special opportunity and pleasure, pulling together over a decade of work on mindfulness in sport done with my co-authors and other colleagues.
Keith Kaufman
We are pleased to have picked up the baton from Jon Kabat-Zinn's earlier work with athletes in the early 1980's, which helped serve as the inspiration for MSPE.
Carol Glass
The Catholic University of America
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This page is a summary of: Mindful sport performance enhancement: Mental training for athletes and coaches., January 2018, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/0000048-000.
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