1st Edition
Sport Injury Psychology Cultural, Relational, Methodological, and Applied Considerations
Written by a team of international experts and emerging talents from around the world, Sport Injury Psychology: Cultural, Relational, Methodological, and Applied Considerations challenges the status quo of the field of sport injury psychology and opens new and exciting future research trajectories by critically considering:
- How to evolve from an individual focused and single, scientific discipline into a cultural and relational focused and interdisciplinary discourse
- How to shift from the dominant positivist foundation towards a more inclusive scholarship with divergent epistemologies, theories, and methodologies
- How to replace the attempt to establish ‘best practice’ and desire for ‘clean’ findings with the need for continuous innovation and multifaceted applied experiences
Each chapter stimulates debate and encourages theoretical, methodological, and/or applied diversification, and closes with future research directions that provide novel and rigorous programs of research that have the potential to advance the field of sport injury psychology into an interdisciplinary discourse that strives for and embraces collaboration between academic disciplines and with practitioners working in the field. Cutting edge, timely, and comprehensive, Sport Injury Psychology: Cultural, Relational, Methodological, and Applied Considerations is essential reading for undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and more established scholars in the fields of sport communication, sports medicine, sport psychology, sports sociology, and other related sport science disciplines.
Introduction: Challenging the Status Quo of Sport Injury Psychology
Ross Wadey
1. Narratives Matter! Storying Sport Injury Experiences
Toni L. Williams
2. Sport Media Research: Examining the Benefits for Sport Injury Psychology and Beyond
Kerry R. McGannon and Jenny McMahon
3. Gender Matters: How can Sociocultural Perspectives on Pain, Injury and the Sporting Body Benefit Future Research on Sport Injury Psychology?
Tanya Bunsell and Mark Doidge
4. Sport-Related Concussion: Critical Reflections, Methodological Musings, and New Research Directions
Nikolaus A. Dean
5. Pain and Injury: From the Unidimensional to the Multidimensional
Michael Atkinson
6. ‘Slim-to-Win’ to Injury: How Swimmers’ are Engaging with ‘Health Risk’ Culture due to Entrenched Body Ideals
Jenny McMahon and Kerry R. McGannon
7. "What Does not Kill us, Makes Us Stronger": Do Injured Athletes Really Experience Growth?
Karen Howells and Ciara Everard
8. Time to Re-Examine Injured Athletes Emotional Responses
Katherine A. Tamminen, Rachel Dunn, and Sarah Gairdner
9. Physiotherapist-Injured Athlete Relationship: Towards a Cultural and Relational Understanding
Sunita Kerai
10. Guilt Experienced by Coaches Following Athlete Injury
Laura Martinelli and Melissa Day
11. My Daughter’s Injured Again! I Just Don’t Know What to do Anymore
Francesca Cavallerio, Nicole Kimpton, and Camilla J. Knight
12. But We’ve Always Done it this Way: The Future of Qualitative Injury Research
Melissa Day and Kimberley Humphrey
13. Experimental Psychological Response to Injury Studies: Why so Few?
Kirsty Ledingham, Tom Williams, and Lynne Evans
14. Introducing Knowledge Translation into the Field of Sport Injury Psychology: The Art of Improving Research Uptake in Practice
Fiona J. Leggat
15. "But it is Bad!" "Yes, but is it Really as Bad as you Have Indicated Here?" "Absolutely!" Challenging Injured Athletes’ Irrational Beliefs: Not a Straightforward Exercise
Robert Morris
16. Less Control, More Flexibility: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Injured Athletes
Sarah Cecil
17. "This is the Final Jump," I respond. Why, Why, do I Utter Those Words?" Storytelling in Sport Injury Rehabilitation
Monna Arvinen-Barrow, Damien Clement, and Brian Hemmings
18. Textbooks Don’t Tell It Like It Is: Tales from Working in the Field with Injured Athletes
Renee Newcomer Appaneal
19. Three Decades Later: Looking Back to Look Forward
Britton W. Brewer
Biography
Ross Wadey PhD is an Associated Professor at St Mary's University, UK.
