Sports Psychology: Athlete Need Analysis and Intervention

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of sports psychology, focusing on the need analysis of an athlete, specifically a swimmer named David Jones. It explores the importance of need analysis in determining an athlete's qualities and physical attributes, as well as the role of assessment methods like intake interviews and observations. The report also discusses triangulation, theoretical diagnosis using models like the Catastrophe cusp and Jones’ Control Model, and potential areas of diagnosis such as self-confidence and anxiety. Furthermore, it examines psychological interventions, including the use of techniques like guided imagery and goal setting to improve psychological coping and reduce negative consequences. The report concludes with a summary of the findings and references relevant sources.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction........................................................................................................................................3
Introduction to the client................................................................................................................3
Need Analysis....................................................................................................................................3
Importance.....................................................................................................................................3
Assessment mode of research:.......................................................................................................3
Intake Interview.............................................................................................................................3
Observation....................................................................................................................................4
Triangulation and its necessity.......................................................................................................4
Theoretical Diagnosis........................................................................................................................5
Detective Work..............................................................................................................................5
Potential areas of Diagnosis...........................................................................................................5
Psychological Intervention.................................................................................................................6
Conclusion.........................................................................................................................................6
Works Cited.......................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
This study focuses on the need analysis to be a good athlete. There is a brief discussion on the life
of a sportsperson and the suitable psychological intervention has been suggested in this regard. In
simple meaning, the applied sports and its psychology can be defined as the extended theory as
well as the thorough research in the field related to the coaching, exercising where the athletic
trainer is considered as the psychological aspects for the activity relating to the sports.
INTRODUCTION TO THE CLIENT
In this article, an athlete named David Jones, who is a very good athlete and a swimmer who won
several Olympic awards in this field. He is a swimmer from a very little age. He acquires the
number one rank in swimming throughout the Globe.
NEED ANALYSIS
IMPORTANCE
The need analysis is required to determine the qualities of the athlete, or the sport or combination
of both. It is also allowed the strength as well as the conditioning coach, the sports scientist for
identifying the physical qualities so that the athletic can perform well in the sports event.
Following this, an injury analysis also helps the coach for tailoring the training with taking
prevention from injuries. Finally, the physical profile of the athletic helps to understand the coach
the strength as well as the weaknesses and also the majority for the training time that would be
spent (Science for Sport, 2017).
ASSESSMENT MODE OF RESEARCH:
For the evaluation purpose and to know better how much the strength and limitations are identified
and also the method of sustained critical argument would help to analyse the need of the athletic in
sports more perfectly. In this respect, a face to face interview is conducted to know better about
the athletic as well as the other functionalities (Doherty, McGraw, & Taylor, 2009).
INTAKE INTERVIEW
The need analysis can also be determined in better way through this interview technique. The
personal interview will directly about the athletic and the questions are asked to the athletic would
more prominently recognized the need to the athletic. Some example of the interview questions
are as follows:
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1. Please tell me about yourself. What is the best moment in the sporting career for you still
now?
2. Please tell me about any worst moment in the sporting career.
3. What is the goal of this season?
It is also important to interview about the contemplating competition and what would happen at
the beginning any game, event or an international match (Liu, Chou, Li, & Li, 2016).
The Athletic is also asked to execute the particular skill and their performance should be reviewed
after every competition. This analysis world reveals the weak point with the athletic. Moreover,
the behaviour, affection, sensation, cognition, Diet/ drugs, Imaginary or the interpersonal relations
are also important to know about the athletic.
OBSERVATION
The advice for the observational method is also significant to analyse the need on athletic
1. Interpersonal relationships: The athletic should have understandable and good relationships
with his coach and other manager who are responsible for his growing up.
2. Under any pressurize situations; the momentary response is very much necessary.
3. All the areas of strength are very necessary to evaluate the performance level of athletic.
4. The areas which cause the agitation are also needed to be checked and take the necessary
steps.
5. The overt behaviour or the gestures all are recorded so that there would not be any
repetition (Rugg, 2017).
TRIANGULATION AND ITS NECESSITY
The necessity of the triangulation is very important for the following reasons:
1. Creating more holistic understanding
2. Relying on the one assessment of the risky decision
3. Leading the ineffective diagnosis as well as the intervention
4. Required to combine and synthesise all kind of assessments to get the overall picture
5. It is avoided the colour through number of technique.
6. It is very important to seek the cover of any potential blind spots and the limitations of the
assessment are also needed to be determined (Yeasmin & Rahman, 2012).
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THEORETICAL DIAGNOSIS
The theoretical diagnosis is used to determine the psychological skill, like self-confidence
or anxiety. This issue can be examines under Catastrophe cusp model as well as Jones’ Contol
Model.
According to Catastrophe cusp model, the health of the athletic can be examined in case nursing
research based on the linear regression approach. The influence of the psychological, behavioural,
biological factors is also determined in this model. The small as well as the inconsequential
changes are predictive factors which lead to the abruption changes in case of health outcomes.
Therefore, the linear approach is thus limited to know the factors which hypothesized which are
relevant with the health outcome (Chen, Lin, Chen, Tang, & Kitzman, 2014).
Through Jones’ Contol Model, the anxiety for specific issues is very important to natural reaction
for threating the environment. It is the automatic response for preparing to fight or flee from the
attack. It is the “hardwired” responses ensure the survival in case of human. The sporting
competition also promotes the similar psychological as well as bodily responses which is often
giving the threat towards the ego or the self-esteem of the athletic. It is essential to demand for
training or the competition exceed when individual’s perception ability and the anxiety are the
inevitable outcome (Peak Performance, 2017).
DETECTIVE WORK
Through the detective work is looking for:
1. finding the common thread
2. The similarities and the dissimilarities between the need analyses.
3. It is also important in case to order the present problem, like BASIC-ID firing order or the
starting point order.
4. It is always recommended to address the root cause of the issue .not the symptoms of the
client (Science for Sport, 2017).
POTENTIAL AREAS OF DIAGNOSIS
The following are the theoretical underpinning of the diagnosis for presenting the issue.
Those are:
1. Self-confidence
2. Anxiety
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3. Attention
4. Motivation
5. Stress and coping (Peak Performance, 2017).
PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTION
With the increment of the attention given in case of development as well as implementation for the
psychological interventions during sport injury and rehabilitation process, the documentation is
also required for its effectiveness of the interventions. The main purpose for the review process is
to summarize the empirical as well as the effectiveness of the psychological interventions in case
of reducing the post-injury psychological consequences which improve the coping psychologically
during the injury by rehabilitation process within the recreational athletes and other competitive.
The interventions which are directly intervene the psychological outcomes of injured athletes in
case of psychological consequences, re-injury anxiety or the psychological coping to utilize the
psychological strategies such as, imaginary, relaxation, goal setting and other common techniques
in the period of post –injury rehabilitation period.
The guided imaginary or the relaxation has been seen to be associated with the improved
psychological coping as well as the reduced re-injury anxiety. Also, the goal setting is directly
associated with the reduction of the negative psychological consequences. However, the direct
association with the reduction of the negative psychological techniques are set up by the micro
counselling skills, commitment therapy or the acceptance (Reese, Pittsinger, & Yang, 2012).
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it is concluded that the complete need analysis is the utmost
requirement for the athletes for determining their strength and weaknesses in this field. A suitable
theoretical diagnosis is thus surviving the purpose of this case. The thorough psychological
intervention will need to be applied for evaluation of the psychological techniques so that there
should be any negative process in the analysis of sportsperson’s ability.
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