• 1. Williams and Andersen's stress and athletic injury model suggests that there are three categories of psychological factors that will influence an athlete's appraisal of the situation, potentially leading to an injury. Give examples of different psychological risk factors mentioned within each category.
• 2. Recent literature suggests different psychosocial risk factors as possibly responsible for the occurrence of overuse injuries in competitive sport. Give example of such factors and discuss in what way these factors differentiate from risk factors traditionally associated with the acute injury.
• 3. Identify three distinct psychosocial risk factors in the case of Sally that potentially caused her third-degree ankle sprain to happen.
• 4. Sally's inability to focus on the upcoming match is likely due to a combination of different biopsychological risk factors. What factors do you ascribe as to have the greatest impact on Sally's concentration problems? Is there any single factor that you think is particularly important here? If so, which and why?