A sports psychologist introduces a step-by-step, eight-point program designed to help readers perform well under pressure in a competitive environment.

The Achievement Zone: 8 Skills for Winning All the Time from the Playing Field to the Boardroom

Self-Help

Murphy, Shane

Motivational

Putnam Adult

The chief sports psychologist for the United States Olympic Committee from 1987 to 1994 presents eight simple steps that readers can use to improve their lives: focus, concentrate, energize, be consistent, stay calm, think like a winner, keep emotions in check, and think creatively. Reprint.

The Achievement Zone: An Eight-step Guide to Peak Performance

Success

Berkley Trade

"The best traders in the world know that being mentally prepared is absolutely essential to compete in today's markets. Without a firm understanding of the psychology of trading, even the best stock picker will fail. The Trading Athlete gives specific instruction on how new and seasoned traders can keep themselves at the top of their mental game."-Tim Bourquin, Cofounder, TraderInterivews.com and The Online Trading Expo "This book is a great training camp for online traders. Doug and Shane will provide the knowledge and motivation to help you become a successful trader."-Jonathan Markowitz, Partner, SMW Trading Co., Inc. Traders, just like athletes, face tremendous pressure, stress, and expectations that would crush the ordinary, unprepared individual. The Trading Athlete utilizes sport psychology strategies to provide you with the knowledge, confidence, and discipline needed to succeed and profit in the sink-or-swim world of online trading. Using real-world examples of athletes and online traders, this book will help you reach the peak of your online trading performance with in-depth analysis of: * Building confidence in good times and bad * Handling losses by examining your methods * Focusing and maintaining concentration * Playing the game one trade at a time Through sport psychology strategies exemplified by John Elway, Arthur Ashe, and other athletes, you will finally begin to trade and survive in the big leagues.

The Trading Athlete: Winning the Mental Game of Online Trading

Business & Money

Hirschhorn, Doug

Economics

wiley

Athletes' physiques and conditioning levels have advanced significantly in the past decade. Now, it's time for their mental prowess to catch up. The Sport Psych Handbook makes significant performance improvement possible through training the mind to parallel the body's enhanced development. Experts covering each facet of the mental game present research-based, field-tested approaches to enhance individual and team performance. More specifically, this comprehensive guide will give athletes breakthrough methods to do the following:
<ul>
<li>Optimize inner drive for training and competition</li>
<li>Maintain emotional and mental control for unwavering focus</li>
<li>Improve communication skills for better leadership and teamwork</li>
<li>Avoid and overcome slumps, injuries, and other challenges to a successful season</li>
</ul>
Complement your physical skills with sharper mental skills. Make The Sport Psych Handbook part of your training arsenal, and start performing to your potential.

The Sport Psych Handbook

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

Human Kinetics

The Cheers and the Tears offers parents and coaches sensible advice and healthy alternative approaches to the competitive and stressful world of youth sports. "Full of practical and helpful ideas for parents who want their child's youth sports experience to be a success . . . Refreshing, honest, and down to earth." - Joan Ryan, author, Little Girls in Pretty Boxes; columnist, San Francisco Chronicle "Shane Murphy understands parents and helps them help their children. His guidance is immensely practical. This book is essential reading for anyone who works with children in sports." - Christy Ness, Olympic figure skating coach, coached Kristi Yamaguchi to the 1992 Olympic Gold Medal in Women's Figure Skating "The Cheer and the Tears is terrific! Shane Murphy provides excellent solutions to tough issues. If your child is involved in organized sports at any level, read this book!" - Sean McCann, sport psychologist, United States Olympic Committee

The Cheers and the Tears: A Healthy Alternative to the Dark Side of Youth Sports Today

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Jossey-Bass

" 
 The Athlete's Guide to Career Planning is a straight forward guide that shows how to develop a ""game plan"" for life. High school, college, and elite athletes will find helpful tips for balancing school, work, and the demands of sport participation. Coaches and counselors will find valuable career and life skills information to share with their athletes.
The highly experienced authors, who have worked with thousands of athletes at all levels, provide specific tools to help readers make important transitions and life decisions during each stage in their athletic career.
With 46 easy-to-use worksheets, readers will learn how to
- identify physical and psychological transitions; - establish and use support systems to guide them through transitions and plan for the future; - relate scholastic and vocational choices to their personal identity; - balance the demands of sport and academics; - apply sport skills to career planning; - identify and match their skills, interests, and values with career goals; and - succeed at the job search process, including writing resumes and cover letters and preparing for interviews.
The Athlete's Guide to Career Planning also features case studies of athletes that help readers understand important issues about athletic life and transitions. "

Athletes Guide to Career Planning

Reference

Chartrand, Judy

Petitpas, Al

Champagne, Delight

Danish, Steven

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Sport Psychology Interventions shows professionals how to help athletes get the most out of their sport experience and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Edited by Shane Murphy, former sport psychologist for the United States Olympic Committee, this practical guide explains how to assist athletes at all levels in facing the special challenges and unique problems that are common in today's sports world.
Unlike texts that discuss psychological interventions aimed directly at improving athletic performance, Sport Psychology Interventions focuses on helping athletes enjoy their participation more and, as a result, perform better and achieve their goals by -managing their lives successfully,
-growing and developing as individuals, and
-experiencing sport as a positive learning process. This book is written by internationally recognized sport psychologists—experts who are familiar with the struggles and triumphs of athletes. Using real-life examples, these contributors address issues that are typically encountered by physicians, athletic trainers, psychologists, counselors, and health care professionals working with athletes. They use case studies extensively throughout the book to bring these issues to life.
Part I presents a variety of intervention models. By studying each model in the context of its application to a particular kind of athlete, the contributors are able to address specific issues related to -child athletes,
-competitive recreational athletes,
-student athletes,
-female athletes, 
-elite athletes, and
-other sport groups. The book explains all of the prevalent intervention models in modern sport psychology: -Life development 
-Educational 
-Multisystemic 
-Family systems 
-Organizational
-Developmental
-Marital therapy
-Cognitive-behavioral Each chapter begins with one or more case studies that show how each intervention applies to sport psychology and how that intervention is used.
Part II examines issues commonly encountered by many helping professionals in the sport setting. Case studies illustrate how sport psychology can be used in counseling athletes who are experiencing special circumstances, including -injury,
-alcohol and drug use,
-eating disorders and weight management,
-career transitions, and
-overtraining and burnout.

Sport Psychology Interventions

Shackleton's Photographer

www.frankhurley.com

A legend in his own lifetime, John Hance (1837-1919) was synonymous with early Grand Canyon tourism. Between the late 1880s and early 1900s, to say "John Hance" was to say "Grand Canyon." Hance was well known to travelers and&nbsp;visiting dignitaries alike, men such as William "Buffalo Bill" Cody and Theodore Roosevelt, the president who affectionately referred to him as "the greatest liar on earth." It was said that Hance tried to jump the canyon on his horse Darby only to turn back when he was halfway over and realized he would never make it across. The truth behind Hance's life is remarkable even without embellishment. In this book, Shane Murphy chronicles Hance's childhood in Tennessee and Missouri, his service in the Confederacy during the Civil War, his time in Union prisons as a POW, and his later adventures with the Hickok brothers crossing the plains. Settling in Arizona's fruitful Verde Valley, Hance farmed and filled military contracts before taking up residence as Grand Canyon's first permanent Euro-American settler, trail builder, guide, and renowned storyteller. Hance left no correspondence, personal memoirs, or other writings. Only informal portraits from magazines and newspaper accounts remain. Murphy investigated assessors' rolls, rare mercantile ledgers, and mining claims to create a full and compelling narrative of a man who was once an icon of the American West and should be remembered as the founding father of Grand Canyon tourism.

John Hance: The Life, Lies, and Legend of Grand Canyon's Greatest Storyteller

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

University of Utah Press

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