Week Five Assignment Psychological Skills Training
Assignment Instructions
Title: Week Five: Psychological Skills Training 100 pts.
After reviewing our assigned readings and the following websites:
http://www.sportpsych.org/nine2.html
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/psychological-skills-training.htm
Design a Psychological Skills Training Program for yourself. Briefly explain any sport, work performance, or exercise psychology challenges and then create a comprehensive Psychological Skills Training Program to improve progress toward your goals using 3 to 5 research studies to guide you. These studies may be on goal setting, positive psychology exercises, time management, etc.
Include a bullet point list of your strategies at the beginning of the paper ( designed like a poster that you could print to remind yourself daily) in addition to a daily hour-by-hour schedule for 7 days of when you plan to practice your new skills every day as a habit each week. What time of day could you practice the skills and for how long? Remember that psychological skills must be practiced like physical skills.
Your paper must be formatted according to APA standards, including a title page, margins, documentation citations, and a reference list at the end.
You might include several of the following strategies discussed in our readings:
- Very Detailed Goal-setting with Measures
- Positive Psychology Exercises
- Stress Management
- Time Management Tools
- Time Awareness Reminders
- Achievement Motivation Techniques
- Very Detailed Imagery
- Positive Self-talk
- Systematic Desentization
- Cognitive Behavioral Approaches
- Awareness of Personality Factors
- Reward Systems
- Self-Hypnosis
- Mindfulness
- Metacognition of Your Own Thoughts
- Positive Reinforcement
- Social Support
- Meditation and Yoga
- Emotional Intelligence
- (anything you find particularly helpful to you)
ALL ASSIGNMENTS MUST BE SUBMITTED IN A WORD DOCUMENT, WITH APA CITATIONS AN REFERENCES
