Psychology for Health Fitness Professionals (book)
How to capture the SPIRIT of effective professional relationships DESCRIPTION Help your clients achieve their full potential while keeping yourself in top psychological shape with Psychology for Health Fitness Professionals. This book examines the importance of SPIRITA<>A~Support, Purpose, Integrity, Resolution, Inspiration, and TimingA<>A~in your professional relationships. Using the SPIRIT model, Psychology for Health Fitness Professionals helps you interact more effectively with your clients by explaining how to A<>A* open lines of supportive communication, A<>A* determine your clients' purposes and goals, A<>A* maintain integrity by establishing personal and professional boundaries, A<>A* reach mutually satisfying resolutions to conflict, A<>A* create inspiration in your work, and A<>A* discover the secrets of timing. You'll learn the most important psychological concepts for health fitness professionals as well as practical skills for providing leadership and advice in health and fitness settings. The book is filled with realistic dialogues taken from the everyday interactions of health fitness professionals. These dialogues make the principles of SPIRIT fun to learn and easy to apply. In chapter 1 you'll discover how to offer support to others in their health and fitness pursuits, communicate this support in a way that builds confidence and self-esteem, and avoid six major pitfalls of unsupportive communications. Chapter 2 shows you how to help your clients identify their purposes and goals. You'll learn to appreciate what motivates your clients and develop skills in determining essential information that will reveal keys to their success. Chapter 3 looks at the integrity you create by establishing boundaries and limits in professional relationships. Highlights of this chapter include four guidelines for developing personal and professional boundaries, five critical questions to answer to make contracts work, and a written contract and agreement checklist for use in your own practice. Chapter 4 focuses on conflict resolution. You'll learn to understand conflict, appreciate the dynamics of power, and master strategies for ending conflicts in a mutually satisfying way. Inspiration is the topic of chapter 5. This chapter reveals how to transform self-limiting beliefs into self-actualizing beliefs and create inspirational energy for yourself and others. Chapter 6 looks at the importance of timing. You'll find out how to identify the ap