Psychological Consultations for Olympic Athletes' Peak Performance

Abstract

Olympic athletes have excellent technical and physical talents but may not possess the necessary stable psychological control needed for maximum success in the Olympic Games. The objective of this article is three-fold: (a) to introduce a psychological consultation program that was implemented by the Chinese Olympic freestyle skiing aerial-jump teams for Olympic peak performance, (b) to present specific psychological training approaches used by these athletes, and (c) to make recommendations for Olympic coaching psychological strategies. It is hoped that such applied consultation techniques will promote the exchange of psychological consultation techniques by enriching the diversity of psychological consultation practices in our field.

KEYWORDS:

• Olympic athletes
• Olympic coaching psychology
• Olympic peak performance
• psychological consultations
• psychological training procedure