Wood Samuel, Turner Martin James
Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University Institute of Sport, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Department of Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Front Psychol. 2025 Jul 29;16:1617548. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1617548. eCollection 2025.
This case study outlines the sport psychology service delivery provided to an 11-year-old competitive figure skater. The client reported performance anxiety, which hindered her training and performance at competition. The intervention delivered integrated core processes of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) with psychological skills training (PST) with the aim of reducing the client's performance anxiety. Little has been written about how ACT can be applied alongside PST. The case reports how ACT exercises aimed at defusing the client's unhelpful cognitions, focusing on valued living, committed action, and staying in the present moment were integrated into goal setting, imagery, performance profiling, and self-talk. Demonstrating the alignment between ACT and PST is crucial for practitioners to seamlessly integrate ACT into their practice. Reflections from the client and practitioner capture the evaluation of the service delivery.
本案例研究概述了为一名11岁的竞技花样滑冰运动员提供的运动心理学服务。该客户报告了表现焦虑，这阻碍了她的训练和比赛表现。干预措施结合了接纳与承诺疗法（ACT）的核心流程和心理技能训练（PST），旨在减轻客户的表现焦虑。关于如何将ACT与PST一起应用的文献很少。该案例报告了旨在化解客户无益认知、专注于有价值的生活、坚定行动和活在当下的ACT练习是如何融入目标设定、意象训练、表现剖析和自我对话中的。证明ACT与PST之间的一致性对于从业者将ACT无缝融入他们的实践至关重要。客户和从业者的反思记录了对服务提供的评估。
