To create a relevant program for an athlete, we need to take an educational approach. And this focuses on mental aspects of performance enhancement, which, like physical training, consists of educational processes. The main points of this approach include:,

1. transfer psychological information to the coach and athlete. This session is about presenting relevant psychological information to the coach and to the athlete. From this first meeting, the sport psychology consultant is expected to listen carefully to the coach and the athlete and learn what they are currently doing. They'll listen to their problems and hear what their expectations are from cooperating with the consultant. Moreover, the consultant will provide a framework and a schedule of future cooperation in these initial meetings.

2, develop sport-specific mental skills.

Here we begin with performance and enhancement skills and teach athletes self-regulation skills such as relaxing techniques, imagery, and biofeedback training. This process consists of three stages. The athletes go through the basic learning stage under lab settings, the distraction stage in a lab setting but performing the techniques with various distractions, and then the application stage, performing these techniques at daily practice and during competitions. During the next stage, we teach the athletes to concentrate with pre-performance routine self-talking and biofeedback treating. Mental skills should be related to performance and thus concentration and relaxation in shooting is not the same as in tennis.

3 support the integration of the athlete's mental skills in practice and competition.

The final part is to support the integration of mental skills during practice and to transfer skills from lab to field. This is critical since we are judged by the athlete and coaches according to their achievements during competition. We often help the athletes apply their mental skills in specific situations before competitions,

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