Developing mental toughness : coaching strategies to improve performance, resilience and wellbeing /
"Mental toughness measures how effectively individuals respond to stress, pressure, and challenges. Understanding this concept is essential to improving performance for both the individual and organization, and authors Peter Clough and Doug Strycharczyk explain mental toughness clearly and effe...
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London ; Philadellphia :
Kogan Page,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- About the Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 01 Introduction
- The 4 Cs model
- Four fallacies about mental toughness
- Defining and describing mental toughness
- How and why we became engaged with mental toughness
- 02 The importance of stress
- Situational moderators of stress
- An applied perspective on mental toughness, stress management and peak performance
- The AQR stress model
- 03 A brief history of mental toughness
- Resilience and hardiness
- What is mental toughness?
- The beginnings of mental toughness research
- The qualitative approach
- The psychometric approach
- Mental toughness in the 21st century
- Our thoughts on the five questions
- 04 Developing the model and the MTQ48
- Preliminary field research
- Development of the four-factor model
- Post-development 'testing' of the MTQ48
- 05 Mental toughness and the MTQ48 measure
- The MTQ48 test platform
- MTQ48 report types
- The future and ongoing development
- 06 Control
- Control
- defined and applied
- Are high levels of control always a strength?
- The psychological context of control
- Emotional control
- 07 Commitment
- Commitment
- defined and applied
- Are high levels of commitment always a strength?
- The psychological context of commitment
- Goal setting
- 08 Challenge
- Challenge
- defined and applied
- Are high levels of challenge always a strength?
- The psychological context of challenge
- 09 Confidence
- Confidence
- defined and applied
- Are high levels of confidence always a strength?
- The psychological context of confidence
- 10 Mental toughness and its relationships with other important models
- mindset, positive psychology and emotional intelligence
- Mindset
- Learned optimism
- Hierarchy of needs
- Mental toughness, emotional intelligence and compassion
- A summary: 6-5-4
- 11 Decision making
- Mental toughness and creativity
- Mental toughness and risk
- Thinking errors
- are the mentally tough less prone to error?
- What of luck?
- 12 Mental toughness and fatigue
- the impact of mental toughness on the development of fatigue
- What is fatigue and why is it important?
- How does mental toughness impact on the development of fatigue?
- How does fatigue affect people with different levels of mental toughness?
- Understanding your own process of fatigue
- three recommendations for action
- 13 Mental toughness and the world of work (1)
- stress, motivation, leadership, coaching and teamworking
- Stress, motivation and aspiration
- Leadership
- Coaching
- Group mental toughness
- organizational development applications
- Mental toughness and teamworking
- Organization development and culture
- Teamworking behaviour and individual mental toughness
- Summary
- 14 Mental toughness and the world of work (2)
- assessment and development, and talent management
- Recruitment and selection
- Employee development and talent management
- 15 Employability
- a key issue for the 21st-century employer and employee
- Employability
- what is this concept?
- Employability
- what does this mean and where does mental toughness play a part?
- Employability factors
- what does a good attitude entail?
- Self-employment, enterprise and entrepreneurship
- 16 Mental toughness and the world of education and the development of young people
- Performance and attainment
- Wellbeing
- Attendance, behaviour and peer relationships
- Retention
- Transition
- Employability
- Aspirations
- Social mobility and working with the disadvantaged
- Bullying
- Anti-social behaviour
- Mental toughness and parenting
- Leisure activities
- sport and outdoor activities
- Primary education
- Conclusion
- 17 Mental toughness in sport
- Mental toughness and sports psychology
- Case studies
- The practitioner's perspective
- Conclusion
- 18 Mental toughness and its link to the social and health sectors
- Mental toughness and health
- Mental health
- Social responsibility and mental toughness
- Occupational health
- Summary
- 19 Can mental toughness be developed?
- The practitioner's and psychologist's perspectives
- Introduction
- The psychologist's perspective
- The practitioner's perspective
- Developing mental toughness
- guiding principles
- 20 Using the mental toughness model and the MTQ48 in coaching and mentoring
- How can a coach apply the mental toughness model in their work?
- The GROW coaching model
- Mental toughness and its application to coaches
- Summary
- 21 Positive thinking
- Learning to think positively
- Banishing negative thoughts
- Reframing negatives into positives
- Mindfulness
- 22 Visualization
- Visualizing success
- The psychological context of confidence development
- Positive psychology and mental toughness
- 23 Anxiety control and relaxation
- a physiotherapist's perspective
- Introduction
- The Laura Mitchell relaxation method
- Other relaxation techniques
- The role of fitness
- The role of diet
- Biofeedback
- 24 Attentional control
- Understanding attentional control
- Attentional control and mental toughness
- Some simple tips, tools and techniques that work
- Interruptions and distractions
- Conclusions
- 25 Goal setting
- How goal setting works
- Aspects of goal setting
- A psychological perspective on goal setting
- 26 Research using the MTQ48
- Introduction
- Mental toughness and coping
- Mental toughness, emotional control/reactivity and emotional intelligence
- Mental toughness and performance/levels of achievement
- Mental toughness and psychological skills
- Mental toughness and personality
- Mental toughness and health
- Mental toughness and education
- Other studies using the MTQ48/MTQ18
- Conclusion
- 27 A summary
- and thoughts about 'what's next?'
- A global perspective
- The psychological perspective
- where does mental toughness fit into the rest of the picture?
- The practitioner's needs
- product development
- References
- Index.
