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Sport performance interventions: Evaluating past strategies and providing future recommendations

Christopher Mesagno, Denise Hill Orcid Logo, Karl Steptoe, Daniel J. Brown

International Journal of Sport Psychology, Volume: 51, Issue: 6, Pages: 646 - 666

Swansea University Author: Denise Hill Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.7352/IJSP.2020.51.646

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The purpose of this review is to highlight the emergence and development of psychological interventions that facilitate optimal performance, and propose future directions for applied sport interventions. Within the past 40 years, educational and alternative psychological skills training strategies (...

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Published in: International Journal of Sport Psychology
ISSN: 0047-0767
Published: Rome, Italy Edizioni Luigi Pozzi 2020
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