{"id":249,"date":"2022-02-28T10:37:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T08:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/sportspsychology\/?page_id=249"},"modified":"2022-03-02T12:59:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T10:59:08","slug":"sports-psychology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vasilisxernos.gr\/?page_id=249&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Sports Psychology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #0177b5; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>What is Sport Psychology ?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">According to the well-known ancient Greek philosopher Socrates, \u201cthe landholders regarding agriculture, patients regarding illness and athletes regarding training\u201d seek for experts, \u201cthose who know, in order to heed them and do what is needed\u201d. The importance of specialists, that is experts of their sector, had already been told since antiquity.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Sport psychology is a specialised field, which aims at helping the athlete and all the people that are somehow involved or wish to be involved in sports, in order to improve their performance. \u201cSound in body, sound in mind\u201d is the saying that very aptly condenses the goal of the services that a scientifically educated sport psychologist, an expert of his sector, as Socrates would say. Sport psychology, established as a separate department of university studies more or less since 1970, is one of the necessary activities, alongside medical, pharmaceutical, physiotherapeutic, and nutritional support, that altogether complete the principal activity of sports, that is the exercise of the body itself.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Every athlete and every person involved in sports needs specified management. The specialist of psychological support, using various intervention means, ultimately aims at the improvement of the already existing competencies of each one separately and of all the members of a team or group as a whole. He doesn\u2019t face anyone as a patient or as a \u201cmadman\u201d, but as a human being capable of further trainig his mind and spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Sport Psychology ? According to the well-known ancient Greek philosopher Socrates, \u201cthe landholders regarding agriculture, patients regarding illness and athletes regarding training\u201d seek &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-249","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasilisxernos.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasilisxernos.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasilisxernos.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasilisxernos.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasilisxernos.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vasilisxernos.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/vasilisxernos.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/249\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasilisxernos.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}