ABSTRACT
The aim of this chapter was to review the literature on self-talk interventions in the context of individual sports such as tennis and golf. The focus of the review was on strategic self-talk interventions and their application to individual sports. Two practical cases were presented, one related to golf and one related to tennis. The two case studies showed two different forms of self-talk interventions. The golf intervention focused mainly on the awareness of negative spontaneous self-talk and the situations in which it occurs, while the tennis intervention was a classic strategic self-talk intervention. In the latter case, however, it became clear that the intervention required necessary adjustments for applied practice, and that strategic self-talk interventions are often used in conjunction with other psychological techniques used in sport. Therefore, the tennis case is a perfect example of how self-talk interventions can be embedded in a broader sports psychology practice.
