Psychology for Health Fitness Professionals - Softcover

Gavin, James; Gavin, Nettie

9780873227759: Psychology for Health Fitness Professionals

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0873227751 ISBN 13: 9780873227759

Publisher: Human Kinetics, 1995

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 SPIRIT - Support, Purpose, Integrity, Resolution, Inspiration, and Timing - 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 open lines of supportive communication, determine your clients' purposes and goals, maintain integrity by establishing personal and professional boundaries, reach mutually satisfying resolutions to conflict, create inspiration in your work, and discover the secrets of timing.
This book is essential reading for personal trainers, exercise leaders, body workers, health promotion specialists, and recreation specialists. Clinical sport and exercise psychologists will also find it a valuable reference.

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