Adventure Psychology (eBook, ePUB)

Going Knowingly into the Unknown
Redaktion: Reid, Paula; Brymer, Eric

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together the emerging literature in 'Adventure Psychology' that supports enduring performance and wellbeing. The first section examines sustaining performance and wellbeing. The second section studies the transformative aspect of adventure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000826227
• Artikelnr.: 66655554

Autorenporträt

Paula Reid has a Batchelor of Education (Hons) degree and graduated with a Distinction MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology from the University of East London. Her organisation, 'Adventure Psychology', delivers the performance psychology of how to survive, cope and thrive during challenging times. She is based in the UK and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Eric Brymer is a behavioural scientist who specialises in researching the psychology of adventure experiences, performance in extreme environments and the reciprocal nature of health and wellbeing from nature-based experiences. He holds a PhD in Adventure Psychology, a Master's degree in Applied Sport and Exercise Psychology and postgraduate degrees in Education and Business. Eric works with and advises governments and institutional departments. He also holds research positions in health, exercise and outdoor studies in Europe, UK and Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Adventure Psychology: Framing the Discipline
Adventure Psychology - A Long Past, but a Short History
Section 1: Sustaining Performance (while maintaining wellbeing)
1. The Adventurer's Mind: Exploring Mindset, Mindfulness & Wisdom
2. Adventures in Extreme Environments
3. Enduring Performance
4. Dealing with the Unknown
5. Adventure, Positive Psychology and Narrative: The Wellbeing Impacts
of Answering the Call to Adventure
6. The Human-Environment Dynamic: An Ecological Dynamics Approach to
Understanding Human-Environment Interactions in the Context of Adventure
Psychology
7. Fear
8. Success and Failure in Adventure
9. Sisu: Answering the Call of Adventure with Strength and Grace
Section 2: Transformational Impact of Adventure
10. How can Adventure Change our Consciousness? An Exploration of Flow,
Mindfulness, and Adventure
11. Adventure, Posttraumatic Growth and Wisdom
12. Transformation or Transcendence: Adventure and the Sublime: A Quest for
Transformation or Transcendence?
13. Giving Back to Nature: An Autoethnographic Analysis of Adventure as
Transformational
Adventure Psychology: Learnings and Implications