| Diane M. Wiese-Bjornstal, Ph.D., an associate professor in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Minnesota, will address the mental pain of sports injury during this 2004 Research Consortium Scholar Lecture. A model of psychological response to sport injury and associated research documenting these responses will form the basis for the lecture. Cognitive, emotional, and behavioral responses affect whether an athlete triumphs over the sport injury experience or the experience leads to tragedy. She will discuss some of these responses, which include changes in self-perceptions, mood states, and coping choices as athletes work through the process of psychological adjustment to the injury experience.
Dr. Wiese-Bjornstal earned a B.A. in physical education teaching K-12 from Luther College, an M.S. in physical education from Springfield College, and a Ph.D. in physical education with emphases in sport psychology and biomechanics from the University of Oregon. Early in her career she taught in the physical education majors program and coached volleyball and softball at Northwestern College. As part of her current work at the University of Minnesota, she teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses on sport psychology and youth sport, and advises sport psychology graduate students. Her research has appeared in a variety of journals and she is a co-author of the book Counseling in Sports Medicine, (Human Kinetics). She has also served on the editorial boards of several journals including the Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, The Sport Psychologist, Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, and Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport. |