Services

Individual Sport Counseling

The Dayton Institute of Applied Sport Sciences is dedicated to the mental health wellness of athletes, coaches, and their families. At some point in our lives, we might all need help with adjusting to life’s concerns and to the people and things that surround us. The concerns can be related to sport participation or they can come from other areas of our daily life. Individual or group counseling from a trained professional can often facilitate adjusting and coping. The Institute offers counseling services for these life issues and transitions including:

Injury recovery
Being cut from a sport
Eating and food issues
Over training and burn out
Parent, student athlete, and coaches’ relationship issues and questions
Drug use and abuse
Career questions and opportunities
Emotional stress and confusion

Please feel free to contact the Institute for a confidential interview and assessment of how we might help you.

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“GET PSYCHED!” and the “GOT GAME? GET PSYCHED!”
These programs are all designed to enhance personal growth, and maximize peak sport performance and sport enjoyment for athletes, coaches, and others involved in sport.

These programs include:

Presentations and individual services in techniques that influence behavior and enhance skill acquisition of athletes and coaches in their pursuit of peak performance.
Goal setting training for coaches, sport teams and individual athletes.
Skills training to control levels of emotional arousal, and techniques for managing performance and competition anxiety.
Skills training in cognitive strategies for learning how to focus attention, build and maintain self-confidence, and athlete self-talk monitoring.
Clinics in coaching dynamics and team building dynamics.
Athlete and coach profile assessment using sport and counseling testing instruments.
Clinical counseling surrounding issues of personality development, sport injury and recovery, over-training and burnout, de-selection and sport termination including retirement.

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SPORT SCIENCE SKILLS FOR COACHES
Part A and Part B

Part 1: This is an extended program for an athletic department interested in offering continuing education for its coaches concerning the special demands of coaching. Individual topics include team dynamics, communicating effectively, characteristics of successful athletes, goal setting, effective practice techniques, motivating athletes, and dealing with "senioritis". Also included is the opportunity to explore the mental challenges of each coach's specific sport.

Part 2 : This is another extended program for an athletic department to offer its athletes and/or coaches in preparing them for the demands of life beyond athletics. It addresses such topics as successful aging, responsibility, assertiveness, listening skills, communication assessment, stress control, marriage and family issues, self understanding, and existential awareness. Each of these topics can be presented individually as a single presentation, or they can be offered to a group over the course of a three-month period.

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Where is your attention focused during your most intense competitive moments! Learn how your emotional reactions affect how you perform!

Take the TAIS – The Attentional and Interpersonal Style inventory

The Dayton Institute of Applied Sport Sciences offers athletes the opportunity to take the, The Attentional and Interpersonal Style (TAIS) inventory, a 144-item questionnaire assessing concentration and communication skills. Around the world, sport psychologists and counselors utilize the TAIS to identify and train athletes and coaches who must consistently perform at high levels under challenging conditions. The assessment offers valuable information that can lead to sport performance enhancement through self-understanding.

The on-line TAIS is given at the Institute, and each person who takes the inventory receives an extensive printed report and personal interpretation session with a trained counselor.

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