Developing Mental Toughness: Improving Performance, Wellbeing and Positive Behaviour in Others

  • 5h 37m
  • Doug Strycharczyk, Peter Clough
  • Kogan Page
  • 2012

Mental toughness is about how effectively individuals respond to stress, pressure and challenge. Understanding this concept is essential to improving performance for both the individual and organization, and this ground-breaking book explains mental toughness clearly and effectively. Tracing its development from sports psychology into the world of business, health and education, Developing Mental Toughness is the first book to look at mental toughness and its application at the organizational level.

Written for anyone coaching individuals and teams for improved performance, Developing Mental Toughness contains practical guidance on delivering techniques that will radically improve people's abilities to harness the effects of stress and pressure.

Full of sample exercises and case studies, this book also features the Mental Toughness Questionnaire - a unique self-assessment tool to determine your mental toughness score.

About the Authors

Peter Clough is the former Head of Psychology at Hull University and is recognised as a leading applied academic authority in this field.

Doug Strycharczyk is MD for AQR which is the organisation which has been instrumental in most of the pilots which lead to the adoption of Mental toughness in new sectors.

In this Book

  • Introduction to the Concept of MT
  • The Importance of Stress
  • A Brief History of Mental Toughness
  • Developing the Model and the MTQ48
  • Mental Toughness and the MTQ48
  • Control
  • Commitment
  • Challenge
  • Confidence
  • Innovative Insights into the Education and Development of Young People
  • Mental Toughness and its Application in Secondary Education
  • Mental Toughness in the Complex World of Further Education Colleges
  • Applying Mental Toughness to Career Guidance and Career Planning
  • Mental Toughness and the World of Work
  • Mental Toughness and Team Working
  • The World of Work – a Case Study from a Major Call Centre
  • Mental Toughness in Sport
  • Health and Social Factors Relating to Mental Toughness
  • Coaching for Mental Toughness
  • Fatigue and Mental Toughness
  • Can Mental Toughness be Developed? Psychologist/Practitioner Perspective
  • Positive Thinking
  • Visualization
  • Relaxation: A Physiotherapist’s Perspective
  • Attentional Control
  • Goal Setting
  • Research Using the MTQ48
  • A Summary and Thoughts about ‘what’s Next?’
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