Critical Moments During Competition

This book presents first-time research findings and new empirically based perspectives and applications in sport psychology.Highly provocative data derived from the largest single study ever on athletes is used to advance an original model of peak performance centering on a clearly emerging athlete's profile. Central to the book is the Theory of Critical Moments, which proposes that mental factors are most crucial during specifically delineated psychologically significant periods of competition and helps explain when and why intrusive cognitions influence performance. <p>Foreword by Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.<strong> Part 1.</strong><strong>Theoretical Foundations. </strong>1. Theoretical Foundations. 2. Critical Moments during Competition: The Theory of Critical Moments. 3. The High Risk Model of Threat Perception and Athletes. 4. Primary Higher Order Predictor Variables: Effects on Athletes and Performance. 5. Neuropsychophysiological Concomitants of Primary Higher Order Factors and the Athlete's Profile. <strong>Part 2. Emerging Evidence. </strong>6. Emerging Evidence: Results from a Large Study of Athletes. 7. Emerging Evidence: Statistical and Empirical Implications. 8. Psychophysiological Concomitants of Primary Higher Order Factors and the Athlete's Profile: Heart Rate Variability and Heart Rate Deceleration Investigations. <strong>Part 3. Applied</strong><strong>Sport Psychology: Assessing and Mastering Critical</strong><strong>Moments. </strong>9. Assessing Critical Moments. 10. Toward a Global Psychophysiological Marker of Psychological Performance and Critical Moments during Competition: Quantifying Zone or Flow States. 11. Assessing and Predicting Psychological Performance during Critical Moments on the Basis of Pychophysiological Stress Testing: A Case Study. 12. Mastering Critical Moments: The Carlstedt Protocol. 13. Applying the Carlstedt Protocol: A Case Study. 14. Active-Alert Hypnosis and the Carlstedt Protocol. 15. A Design for Implementing and Testing the Efficacy of a Biofeedback Protocol Created for a Fromer Wimbledon Champion: A Case Study. 16. An Internet-Based Athlete Assessment, Analysis, Intervention, and Database Center: Your Personal Sport Psychology Consultant.</p>