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<TABLE><TBODY><TR><TD colSpan=2>The Carlstedt Protocol: Science-Based Sport Psychology DVD Released
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</TD><TD vAlign=top>By Tennis Week
09/27/2005
[font=Arial,]The American Board of Sport Psychology released a DVD, The Carlstedt Protocol: Science-Based Sport Psychology during the U.S. Open. The film presents an evidenced-based approach to athlete assessment and mental training. [/font]
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[font=Arial,]It provides coaches, practitioners and athletes crucial research, information and methods that takes applied sport psychology to a new level of sophistication. [/font]
[font=Arial,]The Carlstedt Protocol is based on a solid peer-reviewed theoretical foundation and is supported by potent data emanating from research and field-tests of the procedures advanced in this film. According to Dr. Roland A. Carlstedt..."if Sport Psychology is to emerge as a credible, necessary and useful component of the performance enhancement equation it must advance beyond simplistic approaches to player evaluation and mental training. It must recognize critical research and adapt and integrate instruments and procedures that offer practitioners insight into mind-body dynamics that drive psychological performance and importantly, test the effectiveness of mental training interventions being used. Hybrid approaches that largely center on visualization and anecdotal approaches must be replaced by highly individualized mental training methods that can be documented and analyzed relative to their potency. Valid and reliable athlete assessment methods that are shown in this film must come before mass mental training approaches that fail to consider individual differences in athletes; only then can mental training be effectively used and documented and analyzed in terms of their
impact."[/font]
[font=Arial,]Unique to the Carlstedt Protocol is an Internet-based test center that allows practitioners and athletes to tap into sophisticated neurocognitive and psychological tests that provide a valid and reliable profile of an athlete's mental tendencies and toughness (see below). Dr. Carlstedt is a Licensed Psychologist, Board Certified Sport Psychologist and Chairman of the American Board of Sport Psychology. While based in Europe from 1979-1996 he followed the professional tennis tours full time as a coach, sport psychologist and analyst for media worldwide. [/font]
Dr. Carlstedt completed post-doctoral continuing education in Psychiatric Neuroscience through Harvard Medical School and training in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI; brain imaging) as a Visiting Fellow in the joint Massachusetts General Hospital-MIT-Harvard Medical School, Martinos post-doctoral Fellowship program. As a Research Fellow in Applied Neuroscience with the Brain Resource Company he is also the key investigator in helping establish the world's first normative database on athlete neuropsychological and neurophysiological functioning using BRC validated brain mapping and fMRI protocols. Another component of this project involves developing neurofeedback protocols that are designed to shape athlete brain functioning to enhance performance, research that has been on-going since 2001. Coaches and athletes are invited to access the ABSP-BRC test center and obtain a personal comprehensive report on psychological and neurocognitive tendencies that underlie psychological performance from Dr. Carlstedt (go to www.americanboardofsportpsychology.org; link to Test Center). The Test Center can also be accessed by tennis camps and academies that are serious about engaging in science-based sport psychology, athlete assessment and mental training (contact: RCarlstedt@americanboardofsportpsychology.org).
[font=Arial,]In this DVD coaches, practitioners and athletes will be exposed to: [/font]
[font=Arial,]1. Assessment of Primary Higher Order Psychological Factors using the Carlstedt Subliminal Attention, Reactivity, Coping Scale and related tests to measure an athlete?s level of hypnotic susceptibility, neuroticism and repressive coping. These measures have been found to predict the ability to master critical moments during competition or tendency to choke come crunch-time depending upon their level or their interaction (up to 59% of the variance, an unprecedented finding; Carlstedt, 2001, Doctoral Dissertation; Brain and Cognition, 2004; Critical Moments During Competition, 2004) [/font]
2. Neurocognitive Testing using the Brain Resource Internet-based test battery for assessing subliminal brain responses (http://www.americanboardofsportpsychology.org/Default.aspx?tabid=832)
[font=Arial,]3. In-the-laboratory psychophysiological stress testing with video stimulus/stress paradigm. [/font]
[font=Arial,]4. Quantitative EEG (qEEG, brain mapping) using the Brain Resource Paradigm for assessing subliminal brain responding. [/font]
[font=Arial,]5. On-the-playing field assessment of brain responding using blue-tooth based wireless EEG: measuring actual brain responses come crunch-time; dopers could easily be exposed in terms of their critical moment performance. [/font]
[font=Arial,]6. On-the-playing field assessment of heart rate variability: heart rate variability is a powerful measure of reaction to stress and has been found to predict the outcome of tennis matches (Carlstedt, Master's Thesis, 1998).[/font]
[font=Arial,]7. Actual competition wireless monitoring of heart activity and post-competition heart rate deceleration analysis.[/font]
[font=Arial,]8. Critical Moments analysis: an objective method to analyze how an athlete performs during critical moments. [/font]
[font=Arial,]9. In-the-field Technical and Focus Threshold analysis: used to analyze mind-body-motor control and ability to concentrate during practice and competition.[/font]
[font=Arial,]10. Mental Training as a function of Athlete's Profile of Primary Higher Order Factors, including: a. Heart Rate Variability and RSA biofeedback: used to regulate intensity and focus. b. Neurofeedback using Carlstedt Frontal Lobe Protocols: a means of directly shaping brain wave activity associated with peak performance components such as attention/focus, motor control and intensity. c. On-the-field Glasses-Laterality manipulation training: teaches an athlete to induce immediate shifts in brain activation that have been found to underlie transition from strategic planning to perceptual pre-action preparation; left to right brain shift facilitation and relative shut-down or dling of the frontal lobes which can interfere with focus; keeping intrusive thoughts at bay. d. Active-alert hypnosis: used with athletes who are high in hypnotic susceptibility to intensely focus and prime motor or technical responses while shutting out intrusive thoughts and external distracters. e. Mental Imagery-per Carlstedt Protocol: special mental imagery protocols customized to an athlete?s profile and time demands of a sport. f. Tactile Motor and Technical Learning: using motor learning principles to consolidate training and technique into long-term motor memory; used in athlete?s with most negative psychological profile to override mental influences; strength and confidence though dominating physical and technical ability. g. Motor and Technical Control Threshold Training: using psychological learning principles to greatly increase mind-body control h. On-the-field Focus Threshold Training: same as g. to enhance focusing ability. i. Cognitive-behavioral methods-per Carlstedt Protocol: so-called ?talk therapy? to augment all other mental training methods. [/font]
[font=Arial,]11. Outcome or Efficacy Testing: Investigation of Effects of the above Mental Training methods: A critical component of the Carlstedt Protocol designed to test whether assessment is accurate and an athlete is benefiting from mental training; it is rarely, if ever used by the vast majority of practitioners; VITAL to the CREDIBLE practice of sport psychology. [/font]
[font=Arial,]12. Comprehensive Athlete Database creation and management: documenting assessment and training measures over time; databases are used for comparative purposes. [/font]
[font=Arial,]13. Psychological performance statistics: statistics on the mental game that can be used to document psychological performance in real-time, game to game, like with regular statistics such as batting average. [/font]
14. Comprehensive Report: the culmination of a complete analysis of a player?s mind-body-motor performance. PRICE: Athlete Version: $36.00 (see homepage ad for additional purchase benefits) PRACTITIONER/EDUCATOR Version: $68.00 (includes a complete Power Point Presentation and important data) ALL PURCHASERS will receive a $100.00 reduction when enrolling in American Board of Sport Psychology certificate programs! ORDER via: www.americanboardofsportpsychology.org or email RCarlstedt@americanboardofsportpsychology.org (checks or PayPal accepted; for PayPal go to the above website homepage and scroll all the way to the bottom of the page)
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</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top>
</TD><TD vAlign=top>By Tennis Week
09/27/2005
[font=Arial,]The American Board of Sport Psychology released a DVD, The Carlstedt Protocol: Science-Based Sport Psychology during the U.S. Open. The film presents an evidenced-based approach to athlete assessment and mental training. [/font]
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2>
[font=Arial,]It provides coaches, practitioners and athletes crucial research, information and methods that takes applied sport psychology to a new level of sophistication. [/font]
[font=Arial,]The Carlstedt Protocol is based on a solid peer-reviewed theoretical foundation and is supported by potent data emanating from research and field-tests of the procedures advanced in this film. According to Dr. Roland A. Carlstedt..."if Sport Psychology is to emerge as a credible, necessary and useful component of the performance enhancement equation it must advance beyond simplistic approaches to player evaluation and mental training. It must recognize critical research and adapt and integrate instruments and procedures that offer practitioners insight into mind-body dynamics that drive psychological performance and importantly, test the effectiveness of mental training interventions being used. Hybrid approaches that largely center on visualization and anecdotal approaches must be replaced by highly individualized mental training methods that can be documented and analyzed relative to their potency. Valid and reliable athlete assessment methods that are shown in this film must come before mass mental training approaches that fail to consider individual differences in athletes; only then can mental training be effectively used and documented and analyzed in terms of their
impact."[/font]
[font=Arial,]Unique to the Carlstedt Protocol is an Internet-based test center that allows practitioners and athletes to tap into sophisticated neurocognitive and psychological tests that provide a valid and reliable profile of an athlete's mental tendencies and toughness (see below). Dr. Carlstedt is a Licensed Psychologist, Board Certified Sport Psychologist and Chairman of the American Board of Sport Psychology. While based in Europe from 1979-1996 he followed the professional tennis tours full time as a coach, sport psychologist and analyst for media worldwide. [/font]
Dr. Carlstedt completed post-doctoral continuing education in Psychiatric Neuroscience through Harvard Medical School and training in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI; brain imaging) as a Visiting Fellow in the joint Massachusetts General Hospital-MIT-Harvard Medical School, Martinos post-doctoral Fellowship program. As a Research Fellow in Applied Neuroscience with the Brain Resource Company he is also the key investigator in helping establish the world's first normative database on athlete neuropsychological and neurophysiological functioning using BRC validated brain mapping and fMRI protocols. Another component of this project involves developing neurofeedback protocols that are designed to shape athlete brain functioning to enhance performance, research that has been on-going since 2001. Coaches and athletes are invited to access the ABSP-BRC test center and obtain a personal comprehensive report on psychological and neurocognitive tendencies that underlie psychological performance from Dr. Carlstedt (go to www.americanboardofsportpsychology.org; link to Test Center). The Test Center can also be accessed by tennis camps and academies that are serious about engaging in science-based sport psychology, athlete assessment and mental training (contact: RCarlstedt@americanboardofsportpsychology.org).
[font=Arial,]In this DVD coaches, practitioners and athletes will be exposed to: [/font]
[font=Arial,]1. Assessment of Primary Higher Order Psychological Factors using the Carlstedt Subliminal Attention, Reactivity, Coping Scale and related tests to measure an athlete?s level of hypnotic susceptibility, neuroticism and repressive coping. These measures have been found to predict the ability to master critical moments during competition or tendency to choke come crunch-time depending upon their level or their interaction (up to 59% of the variance, an unprecedented finding; Carlstedt, 2001, Doctoral Dissertation; Brain and Cognition, 2004; Critical Moments During Competition, 2004) [/font]
2. Neurocognitive Testing using the Brain Resource Internet-based test battery for assessing subliminal brain responses (http://www.americanboardofsportpsychology.org/Default.aspx?tabid=832)
[font=Arial,]3. In-the-laboratory psychophysiological stress testing with video stimulus/stress paradigm. [/font]
[font=Arial,]4. Quantitative EEG (qEEG, brain mapping) using the Brain Resource Paradigm for assessing subliminal brain responding. [/font]
[font=Arial,]5. On-the-playing field assessment of brain responding using blue-tooth based wireless EEG: measuring actual brain responses come crunch-time; dopers could easily be exposed in terms of their critical moment performance. [/font]
[font=Arial,]6. On-the-playing field assessment of heart rate variability: heart rate variability is a powerful measure of reaction to stress and has been found to predict the outcome of tennis matches (Carlstedt, Master's Thesis, 1998).[/font]
[font=Arial,]7. Actual competition wireless monitoring of heart activity and post-competition heart rate deceleration analysis.[/font]
[font=Arial,]8. Critical Moments analysis: an objective method to analyze how an athlete performs during critical moments. [/font]
[font=Arial,]9. In-the-field Technical and Focus Threshold analysis: used to analyze mind-body-motor control and ability to concentrate during practice and competition.[/font]
[font=Arial,]10. Mental Training as a function of Athlete's Profile of Primary Higher Order Factors, including: a. Heart Rate Variability and RSA biofeedback: used to regulate intensity and focus. b. Neurofeedback using Carlstedt Frontal Lobe Protocols: a means of directly shaping brain wave activity associated with peak performance components such as attention/focus, motor control and intensity. c. On-the-field Glasses-Laterality manipulation training: teaches an athlete to induce immediate shifts in brain activation that have been found to underlie transition from strategic planning to perceptual pre-action preparation; left to right brain shift facilitation and relative shut-down or dling of the frontal lobes which can interfere with focus; keeping intrusive thoughts at bay. d. Active-alert hypnosis: used with athletes who are high in hypnotic susceptibility to intensely focus and prime motor or technical responses while shutting out intrusive thoughts and external distracters. e. Mental Imagery-per Carlstedt Protocol: special mental imagery protocols customized to an athlete?s profile and time demands of a sport. f. Tactile Motor and Technical Learning: using motor learning principles to consolidate training and technique into long-term motor memory; used in athlete?s with most negative psychological profile to override mental influences; strength and confidence though dominating physical and technical ability. g. Motor and Technical Control Threshold Training: using psychological learning principles to greatly increase mind-body control h. On-the-field Focus Threshold Training: same as g. to enhance focusing ability. i. Cognitive-behavioral methods-per Carlstedt Protocol: so-called ?talk therapy? to augment all other mental training methods. [/font]
[font=Arial,]11. Outcome or Efficacy Testing: Investigation of Effects of the above Mental Training methods: A critical component of the Carlstedt Protocol designed to test whether assessment is accurate and an athlete is benefiting from mental training; it is rarely, if ever used by the vast majority of practitioners; VITAL to the CREDIBLE practice of sport psychology. [/font]
[font=Arial,]12. Comprehensive Athlete Database creation and management: documenting assessment and training measures over time; databases are used for comparative purposes. [/font]
[font=Arial,]13. Psychological performance statistics: statistics on the mental game that can be used to document psychological performance in real-time, game to game, like with regular statistics such as batting average. [/font]
14. Comprehensive Report: the culmination of a complete analysis of a player?s mind-body-motor performance. PRICE: Athlete Version: $36.00 (see homepage ad for additional purchase benefits) PRACTITIONER/EDUCATOR Version: $68.00 (includes a complete Power Point Presentation and important data) ALL PURCHASERS will receive a $100.00 reduction when enrolling in American Board of Sport Psychology certificate programs! ORDER via: www.americanboardofsportpsychology.org or email RCarlstedt@americanboardofsportpsychology.org (checks or PayPal accepted; for PayPal go to the above website homepage and scroll all the way to the bottom of the page)
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