Sport Injury Psychology

<p>Written by a team of international experts and emerging talents from around the world <i>Sport Injury Psychology: Cultural Relational Methodological and Applied Considerations</i><b> </b>challenges the status quo of the field of sport injury psychology and opens new and exciting future research trajectories by critically considering: </p><ul> <p> </p> <li>How to evolve from an individual focused and single scientific discipline into a cultural and relational focused and interdisciplinary discourse</li> <p> </p> <li>How to shift from the dominant positivist foundation towards a more inclusive scholarship with divergent epistemologies theories and methodologies</li> <p> </p> <li>How to replace the attempt to establish ‘best practice’ and desire for ‘clean’ findings with the need for continuous innovation and multifaceted applied experiences </li> </ul><p>Each chapter stimulates debate and encourages theoretical methodological and/or applied diversification and closes with future research directions that provide novel and rigorous programs of research that have the potential to advance the field of sport injury psychology into an interdisciplinary discourse that strives for and embraces collaboration between academic disciplines and with practitioners working in the field. Cutting edge timely and comprehensive <i>Sport Injury Psychology: Cultural Relational Methodological and Applied Considerations</i><b> </b>is essential reading for undergraduate students postgraduate students and more established scholars in the fields of sport communication sports medicine sport psychology sports sociology and other related sport science disciplines.</p>