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Foundation Psychology. The Psychology of Recovery and Rehabilitation. Dan Eaves. Learning Outcomes. Today’s session you should develop: An understanding of the nature of stress and recovery from a biological, psychological and social (biopsychosocial) perspective. Overview.
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Foundation Psychology The Psychology of Recovery and Rehabilitation Dan Eaves
Learning Outcomes • Today’s session you should develop: • An understanding of the nature of stress and recovery from a biological, psychological and social (biopsychosocial) perspective.
Overview • Training and recovery • Maximising recovery • Stress, emotion and performance
Reading Chapter 1 Kellmann, M. (2002). Enhancing Recovery: Preventing Underperformance in Athletes. Human Kinetics, London.
The Psychology of Injury • “Fitness is confidence” Stanley Matthews But can you trust everything you hear...? • “He’s got a knock on his shin there, just above the knee.” Frank Stapleton • “I don’t think there’s anyone bigger or smaller than Maradona.” Kevin Kegan
Performance Enhancement (?) • Can the rate of recovery from intense training predetermine success? • The harder we train, the larger the performance improvement • – up to what point?
Why do people enjoy Sport and exercise? • Social • Competition • Physical • Emotional • Pleasure??
However, There are Dangers… • Research must determine the threshold between commitment and dependence to determine whether exercise is positive or negative. • Popular explanations for exercise dependence are based upon endorphin production and on personality.
Training Programmes (psychobiosocial states) • The development of effective new training techniques must acknowledge the need to avoid over training (Kellmann, 2002). • Illness, burnout, injury, fatigue, mood • Both physiological and psychological limits are intimately linked and are very individualised. • Optimal training must allow for optimal recovery in order to achieve optimal performance.
Optimal Training Recovery Time Training Stress • This balance is an integral part of training, which is often overlooked (Rowbottom et al. 1998).
Underrecovery • Underrecovery: • The failure to fulfil current recovery demands. • This can result from excessively prolonged and/or intense exercise, stressful competition, and/or other life stressors. • Reduces the possibility for optimal performance.
“…I was brain dead and couldn’t wait to get to bed. Sometimes I’d fall asleep straight away, but other times I had trouble turning my mind off . . . Worrying about classes, wondering what the coach was thinking, asking myself if I belonged here, or not… “…The next thing I knew, the alarm clock was buzzing and it was time to get up and do it all over again. I had no social life, nothing was any fun, and I wasn’t doing anything very well – I felt I was barely getting by.”
Awareness of Recovery Process • Overtraining is very difficult to define. • Recognising that during intense training appropriate recovery periods must be available (Kellmann, 2002). • Not simply “less is more”, but must be individually tailored.
Stress and Homeostasis • Stress can be seen as a destabilisation or deviation from the norm in a biological and/or psychological system. • Seen as an external influence or impact. • This prompts individualised cognitive (thought) appraisals: “Can I cope?” “Stress makes cowards of us all.” (Lombardi, 1959)
Task!!! • How can you tell someone isn’t coping? • Write down as many examples as you can think of… • to be followed up in seminars (next week!)
Stress responses: Fatigue Emotion and Mood Anxiety, anger, frustration, despair, sadness Low Self-efficacy Increased CNS activity Hormonal Cellular / physical Changes in immune system. Behavioural Social factors Stress and Homeostasis Fatigue indicates that functional capacities are decreasing, and this is usually accompanied by feelings of discomfort.
Stress and Recovery • Recovery must take into account the resources needed to cope, and thus the strength of the person to be able to deal with the pressure. • The intensity, duration, distribution over time and nature of stress determines the recovery rate for an individual. • Recovery = active reestablishment of initial homeostatic balance after stress (cellular/psychological). • This is both gradual and cumulative.
Developing Coping The role of awareness: • Careful to recognise responses • Encourage willingness to reflect on all aspects of performance. • Acceptance of strengths, weaknesses, and realistic performance goals. • Debriefing – summarising resources/situation • Determining a need for change (motivation). • Goal setting
IZOF Modelling • Performance emotions as indicators of optimal recovery states. • The IZOF is used as an individualised retrospective report which may indicate levels of recovery.
Summary • Optimal performance is only possible if optimal recovery processes are permitted. • This must be considered on an individualised, psychobiosocial level.