Sports and Exercise Psychology:

Roles, Specialties, Approaches in

Sports and Exercise Psychology
MA. SHEILA D. FLOJEMON, ED.D
 Intended Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the lesson, the students must have:
1. defined the meaning of sports and exercise psychology through picture
analysis;
2. described the role of a sports and exercise psychology using pictures;
3. identified the descriptions of the specialties of a sport and exercise
psychology on the table provided;
4. matched the approaches of the sports and exercise psychology to its given
situations;
5. compared and contrasted clinical and educational psychology;
6. created a role play on roles and approaches of sports and exercise
psychology.
 Unit 1: Sports and Exercise Psychology: Roles,
Specialties, Approaches in Sports and Exercise
Psychology
INTRODUCTION: psychology
 field of sport psychology
sport sciences

 sport psychologist a PhD in clinical or counseling psychology

mental coaches
performance consultant
 Unit 1: Sports and Exercise Psychology: Roles,
Specialties, Approaches in Sports and Exercise
Psychology
 Coleman Griffith - ‘‘father” of sport psychology.
- created and developed the first sport psychology laboratory
based at the University of Illinois in 1925.
- hired by the Chicago Cubs baseball team and acted as their
consulting sport psychologist in 1938.
 Unit 1: Sports and Exercise Psychology: Roles,
Specialties, Approaches in Sports and Exercise
Psychology
two important organizations in Sport and Exercise
Psychology
American Psychological Association
Association for Advancement of Applied Sport
Psychology
 Unit 1: Sports and Exercise Psychology: Roles,
Specialties, Approaches in Sports and Exercise
Psychology
Sport psychologists
may teach relaxation exercises to overly anxious athletes to
help them calm down before games, or they might explain
visualization techniques to maintain a focus on success.
may act as an objective listener to overwhelmed or
frustrated athletes who are expected to “do too much” or
perhaps aren’t getting the playing time promised
ACTIVITY:
A. SPORT AND EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGIST
Look each of the pictures below and answer the following guide
questions:

Picture 2
Picture 1
 Picture 3

Guide Questions:
1. All the pictures that are collated in picture #1 speaks
about games, entertainment, and for wellness. What
does the picture implies?
2. On picture # 2, Are all activities says that it keeps you
active? Yes or No? ____. What is the common thing that
they do to keep them being active and being healthy?
3. The word Psychology speaks about behaviors. Is it True
or False? _____________. So, Sports and exercise is all
about an athlete who has that knowledge in the
application of behaviors in sports and exercise. Is it
True or False? ___
4. Based on your answers in #’s 1, 2, and 3, define Sports
and Exercise Psychology.
 ANALYSIS:
A. ROLES OF SPORTS AND EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY

Instruction: Study the description and the picture below and pick what best describe
as each role performed by a sports and exercise psychologist and write the number on
the blank box.
 A. ROLES OF SPORTS AND EXERCISE
PSYCHOLOGY
Descriptions of each Role:
1. Inquiry aimed at advancing knowledge and sharing it through
professional meetings and journal articles.

2. Teaching university courses in either psychology or exercise and

sport science.
3. Working with athletes of all ages and abilities in the fitness industry
and in sports medicine and physical therapy.
 A. ROLES OF SPORTS AND
EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY
Guide Questions:

1. What is the connection of the picture in Teaching as one of the role in the sport
and exercise psychology to the description you have posted. __________________
2. What is the role as a Consultant in the picture being a role of a sports and
exercise psychologist based on the description you have posted on the box.
__________
3. How does inquiry. Interviewing and reading of journals advanced the knowledge
of a sports and exercise psychologist to which you picked the description under
Researcher as a role?
4. How does the entire role connected with each other? ____________________
SPECIALTIES OF SPORTS AND EXERCISE
PSYCHOLOGY
Instruction: Below are the descriptions of two Specialties that can be done by a sports and exercise psychologist.
Identify each description as to whether it belongs to Clinical Sport Psychology and Educational Sports Psychology
based on the guide questions formed:
Clinical Sport Psychology Educational Sports Psychology
1 1
2 2
3 3

1. Use mental coach approach to understand psychology of human movement.

2. They have training in physical education, kinesiology, or exercise and sport science.
3. Educate and increase athletes’ and coaches’ awareness of issues such as anxiety management and confidence
development.
4. They are licensed psychologists
5. They are trained to work with people with severe emotional disorders
6. They are trained to help athletes with problems such as eating disorders and substance abuse.
C. APPROACHES TO SPORTS AND EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY
Instructions: On the table are the three approaches to Sport and Exercise Psychology. Read and understand
each description and match its description to its sample situation given by writing the letter of your choice
under the Letter Approaches
column provided.
Psychophysiological orientation
- Examines underlying psychophysiological processes
of the brain in terms of primary causes of behavior.
Social–psychological orientation
- Behavior is determined by a complex
interaction of the social environment and
the personal makeup of the athlete or
exerciser.
Cognitive–behavioral orientation
- Behavior is determined by both the
environment and thoughts (cognitions).
Letter Situation
a. Coach Rene’s style and strategies foster
cohesion. Meaning, all players of his Basketball
team characterizes good interaction with each
other and there is this force among them to
push each other’s players to work closer
together for the betterment of the team.
b. The tennis players of the Bago City College
are doing each of their part to study the
differences of each member with confidence
and even if they experience anxiety during
burnout or even without burnout in the entire
training program they still manage to
understand each others weaknesses.
c. Dan is a basketball player. He got his MVP
award due to his well-planned and hard
training with progressively growing demands
and challenges over a long period of time that
he faces along the way.
Sport and Exercise Psychologists
vital part of the action,
helping individual players
or even entire teams realize
their potential
Psychological factors of athletes concerned by
Sport psychology that affect how athletes
perform in sport:
Anxiety
 excitement
stress
Sports psychology as Psychology of
coaching
Aspects of Psychology of coaching
1. Psychological aspects of
performance enhancement
2. Injury prevention/rehabilitation
3. Research areas of sport psychology
 APPLICATION:
COMPARE AND CONTRAST

A. INSTRUCTION: List through a bullet form in the diagram if how does Clinical
and Educational Psychology are alike and how are they different from each other.

Answer:
Discuss your
Diagram in 2-3
sentences.
B. Create a Role Play, perform next meeting.
Choose one among the 3 Roles Sports and
Exercise Psychologist, act and apply one of the
approaches you will be choosing. Group
yourselves in 5 in this acting activity. ( it shall
be within 3-5 minutes only)
Evaluation:
Compose a song with 4 lines only
using concepts of the lesson and
using a popular song or melody.
Perform this individually on Feb 15.
Thank you and God bless!
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