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Helping athletes walk the talk: Consultants’ experiences in using self-talk with athletes

Helping athletes walk the talk: Consultants’ experiences in using self-talk with athletes. David Tod 1 , James Hardy 2 , Ailsa Niven 3 , & David Lavallee 1 1 Aberystwyth University, UK, 2 Bangor University, UK 3 Heriot Watt University, UK. Self-talk.

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Helping athletes walk the talk: Consultants’ experiences in using self-talk with athletes

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  1. Helping athletes walk the talk:Consultants’ experiences in using self-talk with athletes David Tod1, James Hardy2, Ailsa Niven3, & David Lavallee1 1Aberystwyth University, UK, 2Bangor University, UK 3Heriot Watt University, UK

  2. Self-talk • Self-talk refers to verbalizations addressed to the self, • typically meaningful to athlete, • and may serve a purpose (Hardy, Oliver, & Tod, in press)

  3. Current knowledge (Hardy et al., in press)

  4. Advancing knowledge • Talk to consultants (Andersen, 2005) • Purpose: examine consultants’ experiences to identify: • Professional development implications • Future research directions

  5. Participants • Sport psychology consultants: • Males (11) & females (9) • Age ranged from 27 to 46 years • BASES (12), BPS (1), or both (7) • CBT (16), Humanistic (5), Psychodynamic (1), Gestalt (1) • Experience ranged from 4-14 years

  6. Interviews • Lasted 40 to 60 minutes • Focused on one positive and one negative consulting experience • Recorded onto audiocassette tape and transcribed verbatim • Subject to a thematic content analysis (Patton, 2002)

  7. Quality control • Triangulation (Patton, 2002) • Analyst review • Participant review • Theoretical (Hardy et al., in press, Orlinsky et al., 2004)

  8. Results: Professional development • Acknowledging abusive sporting systems • Erotic countertransference • Undertaking personal psychotherapy • Exposure to the master therapists • The value of self-reflection

  9. Discussion • Future work on consultants’ experiences • Qualitative methods (e.g., confessionals, autoethnographies, case studies) • Draw on counselling literature (e.g., Brown & Lent, 2008; Ellis & Dryden, 2007)

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