Single Session Thinking in Elite Sport Contexts: Considerations for a Practitioner’s Mindset

Sam Porter, Tim Pitt, Owen Thomas

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Abstract

The authors are sports psychologists interested in how mindset influences performance. Toward this goal, they interviewed leading Single Session Therapy practitioners to determine key aspects of single session thinking and single session practice. They identified nine key beliefs and 17 core attitudes at the heart of a single session mindset. They suggest that therapists consider themselves performers in their own right and engage in routines and strategies (such as chunking the session, mental priming, and mental cues) to optimize their practitioner mindset for SST.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSingle Session Therapies
Subtitle of host publicationWhy and How One-at-a-Time Mindsets Are Effective
PublisherTaylor and Francis
Pages93-106
Number of pages14
ISBN (Electronic)9781040269824
ISBN (Print)9781032693811
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2024

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