Providing sport Psychology during COVID-19

Thursday, 21 May 2020 15:00 - 16:00 BST

About

Location: Online

Price: Free 

BASES Credits: 2

Booking deadline: 14 May 2020

Presenter: Prof Andy Lane, FBASES 

 

COVID-19 has caused seismic changes in thoughts, feelings and actions. Intense emotions such as anxiety, sadness, and uncertainty are an unwanted consequence and bring to bear the importance of having effective emotion regulation strategies. As a practicing sport and exercise psychologist working with athletes working to athletic goals, Prof Andy Lane, FBASES will host this webinar to go through challenges faced and how solutions were sought to help regulate emotions.

His goal is to provide helpful information for fellow practitioners and athletes. The webinar will go through ways in which a sport and exercise psychologist can continue to support to fellow practitioners and athletes alike.
 
 
 

Agenda

Learning Outcomes of the Webinar:
 
  • Identify how strategies categorised as situation selection, situation modification, attentional deployment, cognitive change and suppression can be used to help regulate emotions;
  • Examine how the use of exposure to nature whether virtually and/or authentically can be used, an emotion regulation strategy that arguably is both universal and easily scalable;
  • Describe evidence and experiences of working online to help athletes learn and use psychological skills and how athletes can learn to use such skills via self-regulatory processes;
  • Identify areas for future research.