Psychological Skills Training in The World of Healthcare

For centuries, patients located within rural and inner city communities have lacked access to adequate healthcare resources. Due to the shortage of medical doctors within these regions, the nursing profession continues to expand. The growth of this field of medicine has enabled patients rural and inner city clinics that do not attract full-time doctors, to receive adequate health care in a cost-effective manner. The goal of a nurse practitioner will be to provide traditional health care services in all areas of medicine, and to maintain, treat and prevent human illnesses under the supervision of a physician. In rural and inner city communities, nurse practitioners will care for diverse community of patients’ diagnosis with acute and chronic illnesses such as hypertension, diabetes, obesity, motor disabilities, depression, cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke and more. The anxiety that surrounds the patient due to their illness and daily livelihood is astronomical. The application of arousal control and self-talk of psychological skills training to patient in such regions may be beneficial in improving the patient psychological, emotional and overall physical health.

Educational sport psychology focuses on improving elite athletic performance through psychological skills training. Improving cognitive behavior and development by increasing cognitive awareness and addressing and correcting negative cognitive behaviors through and assortment of training methods, psychological skills training (PST) is best defined. The compass of psychology skills training includes the development of five basic psychological skills: arousal recognition, goal setting, imagery, attention control and self-talk. Sport psychologists have determined th...

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...being. Learning how manage, maintain and cope with stress levels, hypertension patients will benefit from arousal control in order to decrease their blood pressures and risk of having a stroke. Furthermore, what we say to ourselves, self-talk can be used to develop positive cognitive behavior, and correct and address negative cognitive behaviors that inhibit a patient from improving their health. Role-playing with child diagnosis with obesity, can allow nurse practitioner to have a better understanding into the emotional, psychosocial, and physical needs of the patient. It can also given the personal an opportunity to train the patient in positive self-talk in an effort to empower the individual to disengage in risky eating behaviors. Giving the patient a piece of mind and control of their cognitive behavior, PST skills benefit not only elite athletes but us all.