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T&P
         
PERSONAL CONSTRUCT
THEORY & PRACTICE
Vol.16
2019

An Internet Journal devoted to the Psychology of Personal Constructs

 
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SPORT PSYCHOLOGY FROM A COMPREHENSIVE PERSONAL CONSTRUCT PSYCHOLOGY POINT OF VIEW


Francesca Del Rizzo


Institute of Constructivist Psychology, Padua, Italy

  



Abstract

The range of convenience of PCP has proved to be quite large, and one of the fields in which it can fully prove its usefulness is sport psychology. In the past, thanks in particular to the contributions of Richard Butler and David Savage, we had important examples of the way in which PCP tools can help understand and facilitate athletes' and coaches' experiences. In this paper I will try to look at sportspersons' experience through the lenses of PCP and in particular of the Sociality Corollary. In the first part I will outline my tentative effort to subsume athletic experience by means of PCP professional constructs. In the second part I will illustrate my constructivist approach by means of a case study.
 
Keywords: constructivist sport psychology, sociality corollary



 


About the author


Francesca Del Rizzo is an Italian constructivist psychologist and psychotherapist. She works as a teacher in the Institute of Constructivist Psychology in Padua, Italy. She is interested in psychotherapy, sport psychology, equine assisted psychotherapy and in the constructivist didactics of psychotherapy.
 
Contact
: contatto@francescadelrizzo.it


 


Reference

Del Rizzo, F. (2019). Sport psychology from a comprehensive personal construct psychology point of view.
Personal Construct Theory & Practice, 16, 130-139

(Retrieved from http://www.pcp-net.org/journal/pctp19/delrizzo19.pdf)



 

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Last update: 10 November 2019