Abstract: A sport counsellor teaches an athlete to visualize successfully completing a certain action in sporting activity. This will give the athlete confidence to complete the maneuver as well as prepare the athletes body for the actual maneuver. The purpose of this article is to describe the benefits of sport counselling and provide approaches in handling challenging issues in the field as sport people perform their skills. The essence is to provide a relaxed scenario in sporting career to uphold competencies that would propagate effective performance in a competition. A sport counsellor provides a model for sport men and women to have a focus in the job they do and build a career for proficiency and self-actualization. Fear of failure, anxiety and lack of confidence was identified as some of the issues athletes face on the field and inconsistency in performance, social withdrawal were strongly recognized as issues that may require the attention of the sport counsellor. Be that as it may, cognitive behavioural approaches and psycho-dynamic approaches were seen as strong indicators in handling athletic issues for a better and functional sport team with formidable skills to tackle opponents and win a competition as the coaches and sport managers triumph.
Keywords: Counselling approaches, athletes, sport issues and counselling needs for sport people.
Title: Counseling Approaches and Sports Issues in Athletics
Author: DR (MRS.) FLORENCE UNDIYAUNDEYE, DR GODWIN U. UKWAYI
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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