Sport Injury Psychology

Written by a team of international experts and emerging talents from around the world, Sport Injury Psychology: Cultural, Relational, Methodological, and Applied Considerations challenges the status quo of the field of sport injury psychology and opens new and exciting future research trajectories by critically considering:
How to evolve from an individual focused and single, scientific discipline into a cultural and relational focused and interdisciplinary discourse
How to shift from the dominant positivist foundation towards a more inclusive scholarship with divergent epistemologies, theories, and methodologies
How to replace the attempt to establish 'best practice' and desire for 'clean' findings with the need for continuous innovation and multifaceted applied experiences
Each chapter stimulates debate and encourages theoretical, methodological, and/or applied diversification, and closes with future research directions that provide novel and rigorous programs of research that have the potential to advance the field of sport injury psychology into an interdisciplinary discourse that strives for and embraces collaboration between academic disciplines and with practitioners working in the field. Cutting edge, timely, and comprehensive, Sport Injury Psychology: Cultural, Relational, Methodological, and Applied Considerations is essential reading for undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and more established scholars in the fields of sport communication, sports medicine, sport psychology, sports sociology, and other related sport science disciplines.

Ross Wadey PhD is an Associated Professor at St Mary's University, UK.

Introduction: Challenging the Status Quo of Sport Injury Psychology 1. Narratives Matter! Storying Sport Injury Experiences 2. Sport Media Research: Examining the Benefits for Sport Injury Psychology and Beyond 3. Gender Matters: How can Sociocultural Perspectives on Pain, Injury and the Sporting Body Benefit Future Research on Sport Injury Psychology? 4. Sport-Related Concussion: Critical Reflections, Methodological Musings, and New Research Directions 5. Pain and Injury: From the Unidimensional to the Multidimensional 6. 'Slim-to-Win' to Injury: How Swimmers' are Engaging with 'Health Risk' Culture due to Entrenched Body Ideals 7. "What Does not Kill us, Makes Us Stronger": Do Injured Athletes Really Experience Growth? 8. Time to Re-Examine Injured Athletes Emotional Responses 9. Physiotherapist-Injured Athlete Relationship: Towards a Cultural and Relational Understanding 10. Guilt Experienced by Coaches Following Athlete Injury 11. My Daughter's Injured Again! I Just Don't Know What to do Anymore 12. But We've Always Done it this Way: The Future of Qualitative Injury Research 13. Experimental Psychological Response to Injury Studies: Why so Few? 14. Introducing Knowledge Translation into the Field of Sport Injury Psychology: The Art of Improving Research Uptake in Practice 15. "But it is Bad!" "Yes, but is it Really as Bad as you Have Indicated Here?" "Absolutely!" Challenging Injured Athletes' Irrational Beliefs: Not a Straightforward Exercise 16. Less Control, More Flexibility: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Injured Athletes 17. "This is the Final Jump," I respond. Why, Why, do I Utter Those Words?" Storytelling in Sport Injury Rehabilitation 18. Textbooks Don't Tell It Like It Is: Tales from Working in the Field with Injured Athletes 19. Three Decades Later: Looking Back to Look Forward