The Contribution of Psychotherapeutic Means in Developing of Adaptive Behaviours to Youth Sportsmen

Abstract

This study tries to highlight the contribution of the means psychotherapeutic in providing “guided recovery”, the sport‘s trophotrope component of training and establishes the most effective relaxation techniques that can provide increased athletic performance by accelerating the effort‘s homeostasis restoration to the pre-effort level and even at a higher level by achieving “overcompensation”. Longitudinal experimental research is applied to a group of 20 junior athletes, aged 12-15 years, and monitors the effectiveness of psychotherapeutic means represented by autosuggestion and breathing exercises (during effort) and Jacobson relaxation type, elements of Hath a Yoga, mental training and ideation techniques, autogenously Shultz relaxation (after effort) by evaluating the functional parameters (basal pulse, blood pressure before and after effort, Dorgo index recovery) in two stages before training and at the end of it. The experiment took place for nine months and showed significantly reduced results when it comes to basal heart rate (mean 4 beats/min) and systolic blood pressure (mean 0,8mmHg) in favor of the experimental group. Furthermore, the same athletes had an average value of Dorgo index recovery higher than athletes who have not been tried any psychotherapeutic techniques. The evaluation of psychic level shows that the relaxation techniques raise the recovery potential of young sportsmen. In sports recoveries, the relaxation techniques are become prophylactic procedures that serve the purpose of neuro-vegetative homeostasis normalization and accelerating psychological relaxation after effort.