Elements and Performance Criteria
- Analyse information.
- Access and analyse relevant and current information from a range of sources on the application of principles of sports psychology for peak sporting performance.
- Identify support personnel and resources available to assist athletes with sport psychology issues.
- Assess athlete's information needs in relation to psychological approaches to enhance peak performance in relevant sporting activity.
- Maintain and update information on psychological approaches for peak performance.
- Liaise with sports psychology support personnel.
- Provide information to athletes.
- Assess individual psychological needs and preference of athletes in relation to the sporting activity according to organisational policies and procedures.
- Explain psychological approaches for peak performance in the relevant sporting activity to athletes.
- Present information to athletes in a style appropriate to the needs of the athletes and the coaching setting.
- Check understanding of athletes regarding psychological approaches for peak sporting performance using appropriate approaches and encourage athletes to clarify information.
- Clarify with the athletes, the role of the support personnel, including personnel who are experts in the field of sports psychology.
- Encourage athletes to seek advice and support from selected sport psychology support personnel.
- Assist athletes to implement psychological approaches.
- Select implementation strategies to enhance peak performance in the activity in consultation with the athlete and sport psychology support personnel.
- Support athletes to implement selected strategies in training and competition according to organisational policies and procedures.
- Monitor implementation of psychological approaches during training or competition according to organisational policies and procedures.
- Identify possible psychological symptoms that act as barriers to enhanced performance.
- Refer athletes who have psychological symptoms to psychology support personnel for treatment.
- Evaluate the effect of psychological approaches.
- Analyse the performance of athletes in competition situations against expected performance.
- Evaluate the effect of psychological approaches on performance in the activity in consultation with the athlete and psychology support personnel.
- Adjust psychological approaches to better assist athletes to achieve peak performance in the activity in consultation with the athlete and psychology support personnel.