테니스 선수 사이버 상담 사례 : 그 시작과 발전 가능성

초록

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of cyber counseling through the emailing of tennis players. A secondary aim was to observe and examine any problems that could be associated with the administration of this sports psychological counseling. One female professional tennis player, suffering from lack of control during competition and anxiety, participated in this study after the study’s requirements and objective was explained to her and her coach. Based on a description of her possible instabilities 5 objectives for her counseling were made. Counseling was performed over a total of 8 sessions each 70 minutes. The second to the seventh were done every week through email. There was a positive improvement in her attitude and daily lifestyle, and it helped her to be motivated to accomplish her goals. Thus it was deemed that cyber counseling (emailing) could be a feasible method for counseling. Some of these problems noted,consist of the limit of communication through emailing, and the difficulty of matching schedules as the players have both training and competition appointments. Future studies should try and develop methods to overcome these difficulties.

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