( Hayes, Villatte, Levin, & Hildebrandt, 2011 ). Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a psychotherapy method of this cognitive behavioral tradition ( Hayes, Strosahl, & Wilson, 1999 ). ACT has been evaluated for several clinical conditions (e.g., chronic pain, tinnitus, depression, anxiety disorders
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Acceptance and Commitment Training to Promote Psychological Flexibility in Ice Hockey Performance: A Controlled Group Feasibility Study
Tobias Lundgren, Gustaf Reinebo, Markus Näslund, and Thomas Parling
A Brief Educational Intervention Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Four Injured Athletes’ Experiences
John Mahoney and Stephanie J. Hanrahan
The purpose of this study was to research the experiences of four injured athletes during their rehabilitation from ACL injuries and to examine the potential usefulness of an adapted ACT intervention in addressing individuals’ adherence to rehabilitation protocols and their general psychological well-being. We investigated the usefulness of a brief, 4-session ACT program adapted for educational purposes and presented data as case studies. The case studies suggested that (a) the injured athletes experienced a multitude of private events immediately following injury, throughout their recovery, and when approaching a full return to sport; (b) the injured athletes typically avoided these private events and engaged in emotion-driven behaviors; (c) an adapted ACT approach for educational purposes could be useful on at least a basic level to help injured athletes accept private events, commit to rehabilitation behaviors, and have some certainty about returning to sport; and (d) more could be done to address the needs of injured athletes beyond the structure of our 4-session educational intervention. We concluded that the ACT-based intervention, to a certain extent, educated injured athletes about how to meet the challenges of their recoveries and how to commit to their rehabilitations, as well as to exhibit behaviors that would potentially permit their successful reentries to sport.
The Impact of an Online Sport Psychology Intervention for Middle-Distance Runners: Should Self-Regulation or Mindfulness Be Prioritized?
Jonathan Lasnier and Natalie Durand-Bush
performance enhancement (MSPE; Kaufman et al., 2009 ), Mindful Meditation Training for Sport (MMTS; Baltzell et al., 2014 ), and MMTS 2.0 ( Baltzell & Summers, 2018 ). The MAC approach, which is rooted in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT; Hayes et al., 1999 ), is designed to help athletes enhance
“I Didn’t Talk to Anybody”: An Ethnography of Basketball as a Communicative Act of Resilience
Matthew Charles Higgins
remain active in the sport, basketball players and coaches enacted the communication processes of resilience by using basketball as an act of communication. Participation in basketball allowed for the participants to communicatively develop resilience without violating the cultural norm of restricted
Actical Accelerometer Sedentary Activity Thresholds for Adults
Suzy Lai Wong, Rachel Colley, Sarah Connor Gorber, and Mark Tremblay
Background:
Actical accelerometer thresholds have been derived to enable objective measurement of time spent performing sedentary activity in children and adolescents, but not adults. Thus, the purpose of this study was to determine Actical accelerometer sedentary activity thresholds for adults.
Methods:
Data were available from 3187 participants aged 6 to 79 years from a preliminary partial dataset of the Canadian Health Measures Survey, who wore an Actical for 7 days. Step count data were used to evaluate the use of 50, 100, and 800 counts per min (cpm) as sedentary activity thresholds. Minutes when no steps were recorded were considered minutes of sedentary activity.
Results:
The use of higher cpm thresholds resulted in a greater percentage of sedentary minutes being correctly classified as sedentary. The percentage of minutes that were incorrectly classified as sedentary was substantially higher when using a threshold of 800 cpm compared with 50 or 100 cpm. Results were similar for children, adolescents, and adults.
Conclusions:
These findings suggest that a threshold of 100 cpm is appropriate for classifying sedentary activity of adults when using the Actical. As such, wear periods with minutes registering less than 100 cpm would be classified as time spent performing sedentary activity.
Validity of the Actical Accelerometer Step-Count Function in Children
Richard R. Rosenkranz, Sara K. Rosenkranz, and Casey Weber
This study sought to assess criterion validity of the Actical monitor step-count function in children via ankle and waist placement, compared with observed video recordings. Children attending a summer program (12 boys, 7 girls, mean age = 9.6yrs, range 7–11yrs) wore two synchronized Acticals, attached at the ankle (AA) and waist (AW). Children performed treadmill walking at varying speeds, and two research assistants counted steps using observed video recordings (OVR). Results showed high correlations for AW-OVR (r = .927, p < .001) and AA-OVR (r = .854, p < .001), but AW and AA were significantly lower than OVR (t > 11.2, p < .001). AW provided better step estimates than AA for step rates above 130 steps per minute. In contrast, AA was superior to AW for slow walking, and measured more steps during the (nontreadmill) program time. Overall, the Actical monitor showed good evidence of validity as a measure of steps in children for population-based studies.
Facilitation as an Act of Love: A Self-Study of How a Facilitator’s Pedagogy Changed Over Time in the Process of Supporting a Community of Learners
Carla Luguetti, Kimberly L. Oliver, and Melissa Parker
. In a recent paper, we explored both preservice teachers’ (PSTs) and youth’s experiences of an activist sport approach and how pedagogy of love emerged ( Luguetti, Kirk, & Oliver, 2019 ). In the present paper, we extend the previous study by focusing on the pedagogy of facilitation as an act of love
Evaluating the West Virginia Healthy Lifestyles Act: Methods and Procedures
Carole V. Harris, Andrew S. Bradlyn, Nancy O. Tompkins, Melanie B. Purkey, Keri A. Kennedy, and George A. Kelley
Background:
The West Virginia Healthy Lifestyles Act contained 5 school-based mandates intended to reduce childhood obesity. These addressed the sale of healthy beverages, physical education time, fitness assessment, health education and assessment, and Body Mass Index measurement. This article describes the processes and methods used to evaluate efforts to implement the legislation.
Methods:
University researchers and state public health and education staff formed the collaborative evaluation team. To assess perceptions and practices, surveys were completed with school personnel (53 superintendents, 586 principals, 398 physical education teachers, 214 nurses) and telephone interviews were conducted with a multistage, stratified sample of 1500 parents and 420 students statewide. Healthcare providers (N = 122) were surveyed regarding current child weight practices and interactions with families. Statewide data reflecting fitness, physical education plans, local wellness policies, and health knowledge were included in the evaluation.
Results:
The evaluation was facilitated by state officials and agencies, resulting in good access to survey groups and high survey response rates for school personnel (57% to 95% response rates); a substantially lower response rate was obtained for healthcare providers (22%).
Conclusions:
Collaborative design and implementation was a key factor in the successful conduct of this obesity policy evaluation.
Plan Globally and Act Locally for Physical Activity?
Michael Pratt, Andrea Ramirez Varela, Harold W. (Bill) Kohl III, Bojana Klepac Pogrmilovic, Željko Pedišić, and James F. Sallis
, Pratt M , et al . National physical activity and sedentary behaviour policies in 76 countries: availability, comprehensiveness, implementation, and effectiveness . Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act . 2020 ; 17 ( 1 ): 1 – 13 . PubMed ID: 32948193 doi:10.1186/s12966-020-01022-6 10. Allen LN , Nicholson
The Future Past of the Amateur Sports Act: Developing American Sport
Laurence Chalip
The United States is struggling to hold its own in international competitions. The Amateur Sports Act mandates that the USOC and its NGBs should build American sport performances by fostering sport participation throughout the country, and by enabling sport research. However, data from the past 16 years of sport participation demonstrate that participation is declining in many of our key sports, while others show inconsistent or merely ephemeral growth. Further, sport research is no longer pursued by the USOC, and it is not funded by any U.S. government agency or private American foundation. Consequently, the American sporting culture is eroding, and the United States is becoming a client nation when it comes to sport research. A review of the formation of The Amateur Sports Act shows that it was formulated to address Cold War concerns. Consequently, the Act failed to consider sport development, as the Act’s primary purpose was to engender a rationalized private sport system through which to build teams that could beat communist athletes. A reassessment of The Amateur Sports Act in light of contemporary conditions, suggests that greater attention to participation and research are necessary, but that such attention will require establishment of a foundation to nurture sport participation and to fund sport research. The foundation’s mandate would include creation of clubs and leagues to enable year round and lifelong sport participation, enhancement of the availability of sport facilities for club and league use, guidance for grassroots development of sport, and establishment of clear pathways for athletes. The template for such a foundation was created in the 1960s but never implemented. The time is ripe for it to be implemented now either by incorporating its mandates into the new Foundation for Fitness, Sport, and Nutrition, or by establishing a foundation that specifically targets sport development.
