Mindfulness and acceptance in sport: how to help athletes perform and thrive under pressure

1 Mindfulness and acceptance approaches : do they have a place in elite sport? / Kristoffer Henriksen, Peter Haberl, Amy Baltzell, Jakob Hansen, Daniel Birrer, and Carsten Hvid Larsen

Section I How to work with the key processes of minfulness and acceptance in elite sport

2 Helping athletes make good decisions through the sport lifeline and functional analysis / Gustaf Reinebo, Kristoffer Henriksen and Tobias Lundgren

3 Helping athletes clarify their values and become grounded in their sport venture / Carsten Hvid Larsen, Gustaf Reinebo and Tobias Lundgren

4 Helping athletes by present when performing under pressure / Jakob Hansen and Peter Haberl

5 Helping athletes defuse and accept : thoughts and emotions are not the enemies / Daniel Birrer, Greg Diment, and Olivier Schmid

6 Helping athletes commit to action : cold feet, crying babies, and early morning training / Mark W. Aoyagi and Jessica D. Bartley

Section II Applied cases, good examples and practitioner struggles

7 Losing motivation, career termination, reboot and an Olympic medal : working with a swimmer in the year leading up to the Olympics / Carsten Hvid Larsen and Kristoffer Henriksen

8 Mindful of a new role : an ACT based sport psychology course for coaches / Søren Svane Hoyer, Astrid Becker-Larsen, Jakob Hansen and Kristoffer Henriksen

9 Keeping your eyes closed and on the ball : mindfulness in professional sports in the United States / Mark W. Aoyagi and Jonathan Fader

10 ACT for adolescent athletes : a case study with a young basketball player / Kristel Kiens and Carsten Hvid Larsen

11 Mindful sport performance enhancement in action : a case study with an elite football academy / Amy L. Spencer, Keith A. Kaufman, Carol R. Glass, and Timothy R. Pineau

12 Caught in the trap of trying, repeat success : sport psychology dupport for the Swedish men's handball team in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics / Johan Ekengren

13 Mindfulness-training in professional soccer / Anders Meland

14 Nature as a source to gain perspective and experience / Anne Marte Pensgaard

15 Self-compassion in sport for courage and performance / Amy Baltzell, Philip Röthlin and Göran Kenttä

16 When disaster hits : helping the injured athlete to accept and refocus / John Baranoff and Renee Appaneal

17 East meets West : mindfulness intervention in Hong Kong elite sport setting / Hin Yue LI (Henry) and Ning Su

18 Taking our own medicine : the mindful sport psychology practitioner in high pressure events / Kristoffer Henriksen, Carsten Hvid Larsen, and Jakob Hansen.