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Psychology of Injury

Psychology of Injury. October 24, 2002. Importance of Injury as a Topic. Physiological skills Appropriate learning environment Personality variables Strategies for managing high stress levels Absence of injury. Importance. 3-5 million to 17 million per year Primary caregiver is AT staff

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Psychology of Injury

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  1. Psychology of Injury October 24, 2002

  2. Importance of Injury as a Topic • Physiological skills • Appropriate learning environment • Personality variables • Strategies for managing high stress levels • Absence of injury

  3. Importance • 3-5 million to 17 million per year • Primary caregiver is AT staff • Larson (1996) study of AT’s working with injured athletes

  4. Importance of Injury

  5. Model of Stress

  6. Personality Variables Related to Onset of Injury • Primarily physical in nature (conditions, equipment failure, overtraining) • Risk-taking • Anxiety

  7. Situational Variables Related to Onset of Injury • Major & Minor Life Stresses (History) • Coping Resources

  8. Stressors • Stress history contributes to the stress response directly • Personality variables & coping may directly affect, or affect through the stress response

  9. Stress Response • Increases in muscle tension & distractibility • Decreases in attention

  10. Effects of Injury • Loss of social support system • Uncertainty about immediate future • Loss of confidence • Athletic identity- if involuntary, higher risk.

  11. Psychological Response to Injury & Rehabilitation • Wiese-Bjornstal et al. (1998): Integrated model of psychological response to the sport injury and rehabilitation process

  12. Integrated Model • Personal factors • Situational factors

  13. Cognitive Appraisal

  14. Emotional Response

  15. Behavioral Response

  16. Integrated Model • Core of model = arrows • Dynamic process • Cognitive appraisal should affect emotional responses, which will influence behavioral response • Why are there arrows going in a counterclockwise direction?

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