Sports Psychology

When negative events happen to us, we usually apply the outcome to our skills.

of their hips, have been shown to improve simply by telling themselves what to change or improve. Another valuable applied sports psychology exercise is reframing. When negative events happen to us, we usually apply the outcome to our skills or capabilities, weighing our happiness and self-confidence down. Have you ever gotten a poor grade on an assignment and thought to yourself that you can never do any better or that you just want to give up altogether? While you knew that wasn’t actually true, because everyone can work to do better, emotions can still be heavy enough to cause unhappiness. Sports psychologists help to address these reactions to negative outcomes by a reframing of the issue, the outcome, and the effect on a person’s mental health. One of

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Sports Psychology