372 From Basics to Beijing: Mental Skills Training for Performance Enhancement

Thursday, April 2, 2009: 10:15 AM-11:30 AM
Tampa Convention Center: 1-2
NASPE/Research/Social Sciences
Presider: Karen E. McConnell, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA
Speaker: Colleen M. Hacker, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA
CEU OPPORTUNITY: This session will offer coaches numerous ways to implement psychological skills training for athletes by utilizing common practice techniques they are already using in their normal coaching environment. By intentionally linking these common coaching and delivery opportunities to established mental skills training techniques, coaches will learn from a sport psychology consultant of four Olympic Games, how to implement cognitive, behavioral and psychosomatic skills training techniques for athletes from youth to elite levels.