Basic principles of the meta-technology of sports psychological counseling
Within the framework of sports and recreation work, a large role belongs to the psychological support of athletes, trainers involved in physical therapy, etc. This role has not yet been appreciated; however, the problems of its technologies and, especially, meta-technologies - the basic principles and guidelines, are very acute. It is obvious that neither the health itself - physical, moral, psychological, social, nor the achievements themselves - in sports, etc. can not act as a target and center for psychotherapeutic sports and recreational work. The central meanings is the development of a person as such, his improvement as an individual and social subject of life activity. Psychological counseling in the framework of sports and recreational work focuses on the problems of a person’s relationship with himself and the world through the prism of his sports and recreational activities, and he considers these relationships both as a source of problems and as a way to overcome them. Sports and psychological counseling appears as a complex, polymorphic phenomenon associated with the help of different groups of clients in the framework of sports and recreation work in solving the problems of their relationships with themselves and the world: intrapersonal, interpersonal, as well as intragroup and intergroup functioning, development and recovery (abilitation and rehabilitation) in the framework of sports and recreational work. Based on the tetrad of principles of psychological counseling, highlighted in the school of K.R. Rogers, the author considers their manifestations in the framework of sports and recreational work and features in three main aspects of the dimensions of consultative interaction: power, competence, love, - transformative, dialogic and relational intentions, as well as in relation to the life activity of the sports psychologist-consultant as a whole. Sports psychology is a branch of psychology that focuses on how people change themselves and their lives as a result of sports and physical education. A sports psychologist understands that people who play sports need to be healthy not only physically, but also psychologically, socially and morally, in order to succeed.. Sports psychologists often work with several different types of athletes and students, from amateurs to professionals, from mentally and somatically sick people to people with the highest knowledge and skills to manage their physical, psychological, social life, etc.