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Psychological Approaches to Sports Injury Rehabilitation
Jim Taylor and Shel Taylor Aspen Publishers, Gaithersburg, MD 1997
304 pages
ISBN: 0-8342-0973-X
Price: $52.00
Psychological Approaches to Sports Injury Rehabilitation is a book that addresses numerous psychological facets of the postinjury process among athletes. The target audience of the book is rehabilitation professionals or students training to be rehabilitation professionals, although injured athletes could also benefit from the book, which applies many sport psychology principles and techniques to the injury rehabilitation process. This is a worthwhile approach because many of the principles of sport psychology are never disseminated to other disciplines.
The book is divided into four sections: Section 1, "Rehabilitation Assessment and Education," includes chapters on rehabilitation assessment, understanding the rehabilitation process, and the psychology of the rehabilitation process; Section II, "Psychological Problems and Referral," encompasses chapters on psychological problems in rehabilitation and making referrals (ie, how to identify and refer injured athletes who may benefit from psychological counseling); Section III, "Psychological Influences on Rehabilitation," provides chapters on confidence, motivation, anxiety, and focus; and Section IV, "Facilitating Rehabilitation," offers chapters on rehabilitation imagery, pain management, social support, returning to sport, and developing a psychological rehabilitation program.
There are many worthwhile aspects to this text. The book is...