Integrating psychological skills into sport and exercise injury rehabilitation:appling theory to practice

The workshop will provide an awareness of psychological factors underlying sport and exercise injuries. More specifically, the course focuses on identifying and critically evaluating psychological, social and behavioural factors related to the sport and exercise injury rehabilitation process. The course aims to develop an understanding of the use of psychological intervention techniques as part of sport and exercise injury rehabilitation. The course will use number of case studies to demonstrate the link between existing psychological theory and applied practice by providing the participants hands on approach on how to utilise these skills in their own professional practice.

Learning outcomes and objectives

• To appreciate the psychological process of sport and exercise injuries
• To understand, compare and contrast existing psychological theories and models of sport and exercise injuries
• To critically examine the usefulness of psychological interventions in sport and exercise injury rehabilitation
• To apply psychological interventions to sport and exercise injury rehabilitation
• To gain an understanding of the role of different professionals working with injured sport and exercise participants

Facilitators: Dr Monna Arvinen-Barrow CPsychol, Dr Natalie Walker CPsychol and Dr Julie Waumsley CPsychol

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