Scandinavian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology CALL FOR PAPERS Sport Psychology and The Olympic Games: Helping Athletes Shine in the Shadow of the Pandemic. 0 The Scandinavian Journal on Sport and Exercise Psychology (SJSEP) hereby invites contributions for a special issue. Extended Deadline: June 30th 2022 As the Beijing Winter Olympics are approaching, we have decided to extend the deadline to allow for submissions related to this event. We have also added a category of submissions called Short focused reflections. Over the last year and a half, in the shadows of a worldwide pandemic, athletes and coaches have struggled to find meaning, have had to accept the unbearable, and have found themselves in what has seemed like an eternal limbo of high pressure, uncertainty and low or no control. The Olympic games have always had a special status for many athletes as the most important event in their life. Success at the games has the power to change athletes’ and coaches’ lives. Therefore, athletes may find it hard to maintain focus and composure at the Games. The Tokyo and Beijing Games will go over in history as an event that tested the athletes’ mental game even further. Postponement, speculations that the Games could be cancelled, changes in preparations, lack of opportunities to compete and severe restrictions during the Games all provide fertile ground for rumination, stress, and losing sight of the deeper meaning. Never before has mental strength been more important. Never before has mental health been more challenged. • We invite practitioners to submit case studies of how they worked with athletes, teams and coaches before, during and after the Games. • We invite presentations of national guidelines and specific interventions to alleviate post-Olympic blues. • As a version of the above, we invite short focused reflections based on a specific guide developed by the editorial team. We hope to include several such short stories that have a similar structure and together present a diversity of approaches and reflections. Please contact the editorial team for further dialogue. We invite small scale research projects related to the Games that have an applied focus. • We invite personal reflections from sport psychology practitioners on the experience of providing service during a Pandemic. • And we invite other papers that take applied sport psychology work and the Tokyo Olympic Games as their starting point. The value and timeliness of a special issue on supporting high performance in stressful contexts lie in the unusual mix of a world-leading sport event and a worldwide life-changing pandemic. We believe that measures taken in these unusual circumstances may inform sport psychology work in general. We expect all submissions to be rigorous and have the potential to advance the field. The journal promotes a Scandinavian angle. Scandinavian countries provide a particular context for sport psychology. Research and applied initiatives conducted in this context are unique but can inspire the world. At the same time, research from across the globe can inform Scandinavian sport and exercise psychology if the Scandinavian context is carefully considered. Contributors to the special issue should follow the submission guidelines of SJSEP. Manuscripts must be submitted online. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue, it is important to specify in your cover letter that the submission is intended for the special issue. The editors will initially screen all manuscripts submitted and then sent out for blind peer review if evaluated as appropriate for the special issue. Manuscripts that are well-written and in conformity with the journal’s guidelines will be favourably considered The deadline for submissions is June 30th. We aim for a quick and efficient review process and publication Any inquiries regarding the special issue should be submitted to the special issue editors Professor Kristoffer Henriksen at [email protected], Dr Carsten Hvid Larsen at [email protected] or president of DIFO (Danish sport psychology association) Astrid Becker Larsen at [email protected]
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