Mindfulness and Acceptance in Sport

1. Mindfulness and Acceptance Approaches: Do They Have a Place in Elite Sport?

Kristoffer Henriksen, Peter Haberl, Amy Baltzell, Jakob Hansen, Daniel Birrer, and Carsten Hvid Larsen

Section I: How to Work with the Key Processes of Mindfulness and Acceptance in Elite Sport

2. Helping Athletes Make Good Decisions through The Sport Lifeline and Functional Analysis

Gustaf Reinebo, Kristoffer Henriksen and Tobias Lundgren

3. Helping Athletes Clarify their Values and Become Grounded in Their Sport Venture

Carsten Hvid Larsen, Gustaf Reinebo and Tobias Lundgren

4. Helping Athletes be Present when Performing under Pressure

Jakob Hansen and Peter Haberl

5. Helping Athletes Defuse and Accept: Thoughts and Emotions Are Not the Enemies

Daniel Birrer, Greg Diment, and Olivier Schmid

6. Helping Athletes Commit to Action: Cold Feet, Crying Babies, and Early Morning Training

Mark W. Aoyagi and Jessica D. Bartley

Section II: Applied Cases, Good Examples and Consultant Struggles

7. Losing Motivation, Career Termination, Reboot and an Olympic Medal: Working with a Swimmer in the Year Leading up to the Olympics

Carsten Hvid Larsen and Kristoffer Henriksen

8. Mindful of a New Role: An ACT Based Sport Psychology Course for Coaches

S¸ren Svane Hoyer, Astrid Becker-Larsen, Jakob Hansen and Kristoffer Henriksen

9. Keeping your Eyes Closed and on the Ball: Mindfulness in Professional Sports in the United States

Mark W. Aoyagi and Jonathan Fader

10. ACT for Adolescent Athletes: A Case Study with a Young Basketball Player

Kristel Kiens and Carsten Hvid Larsen

11. Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement in Action: A Case Study with an Elite Football Academy

Amy L. Spencer, Keith A. Kaufman, Carol R. Glass, and Timothy R. Pineau

12. Caught in the Trap of Trying to Repeat Success. Sport Psychology Support for the Swedish Menâs Handball Team in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics

Johan Ekengren

13. Mindfulness-training in Professional Soccer

Anders Meland

14. Nature as a Source to Gain Perspective and Experience Awe

Anne Marte Pensgaard

15. Self-Compassion in Sport for Courage and Performance

Amy Baltzell, Philip R¶thlin and G¶ran Kentt¤

16. When Disaster Hits: Helping the Injured Athlete to Accept and Refocus

John Baranoff and Renee Appaneal

17. East meets West: Mindfulness Intervention in Hong Kong Elite Sport Setting

Hin Yue LI (Henry) and Ning SU

18. Taking our own Medicine: The Mindful Sport Psychology Practitioner in High Pressure Events

Kristoffer Henriksen, Carsten Hvid Larsen, and Jakob Hansen