May Parent Forum: Raising Healthy High Achievers
Join me at the Singapore Sports Medicine Centre for some great discussion and information sharing with like-minded parents who want the best for their young athletes. May-2015
Dr Jay-Lee Nair is a sport and exercise psychologist for Mental Notes Consulting based In Singapore. She specializes in psychological skills training for athletic performance enhancing, health and well-being counselling. Jay-Lee's research area of expertise is perfectionism in sport and exercise. Her most recently published book is titled 'An examination of maladaptive and adaptive perfectionism in exercise: Does perfectionism energize or compromise one's exercise endeavors?'
Making Sense of Mental Toughness: The Latest Findings in Sport Psychology Research and What it Means for Your Game
In the past decade, “mental toughness” has become a hot topic among researchers, sport psychologists, and coaches alike. Prior to the influx of research on the subject much of what was known about mental toughness was based on anecdotal reports and disseminated predominantly through the popular media. The result was a diverse selection of definitions…
Proactive Parents: How sport psychology can help you to help your child perform and enjoy their sport
I had the pleasure of being involved in the Inaugural Fencing workshop series “My Olympic Journey” endorsed by Fencing Singapore. Throughout the day I had the opportunity to talk with many parents about psychological skills training and how a sport psychologist uniquely works to support youth athletes in their athletic journey. In this article, I’d…
True Competition in Action at Wimbledon
In between breaks of the World Cup, turning our attention to Centre Court at Wimbledon for the Men’s final match offered a refreshing display of “true” sportsmanship that dispersed the focus on Suarez’s biting incident and was a timely reminder that traditional values and spirit are very much alive and well in sport at the…
Straits Times Interview
The Singapore Sports School has taken an organic approach to inspiring its athletes during this period, said its sports psychologist, Dr Jaylee Longbottom in an interview with The Straits Times Online. ‘Rather than providing formal workshop sessions, we’ve decided to put together Olympic-inspired music to be played during assembly. We’ve also put together images and…