Post 9 Justify why we chose the two strategies

In this six week PST program I chose the two strategies I did which were Self talk and Goal setting. I chose to focus on these two strategies because I felt in the meeting when I spoke with my client and her parents they were the key factors that she needed help and focusing on. I felt that we needed to focus on goal setting because it is a big factor in sport and been able to succeed. I felt that if she had no goals then she would not be motivated to do well and get further and more better in her sport. I know this from my previous sporting career because I was never motivated until I had goals I wanted to reach. We both agreed that goal setting would be a good strategy to focus on because she said that she had never really thought about setting goals before. I also chose to focus on Self talk because when dealing with previous clients it has helped to motivated and for them to be more confident before and after competing. I firstly told her what self talk was as she had never heard of it before and when I told her about it she sounded interested and wanted to give it a go therefore we tried it out. The self talk was successful because this helped her to be more confident in herself. We chose to focus on self talk for three Weeks because we felt as if this was a good enough time frame to be able to introduce it into her training and competing schedule. We also thought that it would help her to be more confident therefore when it comes to races she will be more motivated to succeed and wont be worrying about what other people think about her as that is not very nice and it makes people doubt themselves. If I could do this again I would try and focus on doing more sessions in the weeks I had and maybe try and increase how many weeks I had to spend with the clients as it all goes too quickly. Also the more time i have to help them the better they will become.

I didn't choose to focus on imagery because I think that the two strategies I chose focussed more on improving motivation and focused more on her sport. Also her sport is quite tough so I think it was good that I didn't choose imagery because i don't think it would have made her improve in her sport whereas the ones I chose did help.