The present study presents a case of psychological intervention on an athlete with an interoceptive avoidance disorder. This disorder manifested itself through a fear response conditioned to somatic stimuli, occurring during the 1,500 metres run. Techniques of arousal control, exposure and other cognitive approach strategies such as thought adaptation and self-instructions were all used in the psychological intervention. Although in cases like this psychological intervention is necessary, little scientific literature is to be found on psychological disorders of sportspeople. As a result, the present study offers a twofold angle of approach: to describe the intervention procedure used and to consider the possibility of generalising the same to similar cases, in which the properties of the training or the competition act as triggers of the problem on account of conditioning to either external or internal stimuli.
En este trabajo se presenta un estudio de caso de una atleta con un trastorno de evitación interocep-tiva. Dicho trastorno se caracterizaba por una respuesta de miedo condicionado a estímulos somáti-cos que se manifestaba durante la prueba de 1500 metros. En el programa de intervención psicológi-ca se utilizaron técnicas de control de la activación, exposición real y otras estrategias de afronta-miento de naturaleza cognitiva -adecuación del pensamiento y autoinstrucciones. Aunque en casos como este, la intervención del psicólogo deportivo se hace necesaria, hasta el momento, los trastor-nos psicológicos de los deportistas han tenido escasa presencia en la literatura científica. Por este motivo, este trabajo puede tener un doble interés: describir el procedimiento de intervención utilizado; y observar las posibilidades de generalización a otros casos análogos, en los que las propias caracte-rísticas de las actividades de entrenamiento o de competición actúan como desencadenantes del problema, bien por condicionamiento a estímulos externos, bien por condicionamiento a estímulos internos.
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