Importance of clinical factors during psychological intervention with high-performance athletes

The study aims to expose the importance of clinical factors during the initial phase of intervention, the establishment of the report, or "psychological attunement", as a fundamental premise to obtain a bond of trust between the sports psychologist and the athlete. This intervention perspective, considers in the first instance the athlete as a human being; and not only as a source of results, or medals. This study constitutes the initial part of a research project carried out in high-performance athletes from Ecuador, which was analyzed and approved by the Area of the Presidency and Methodological Technical Department of the Ecuadorian Olympic Committee (COE). The reagents applied were the projective tests: House Tree Person (HTP), Family Test, Person in the Rain, and the Personality Questionnaires SEAPSI, Salamanca, and Inventory of Automatic Thoughts (IPA). As results obtained, the family elements and the socio-environmental environment at an early age stand out as the main triggering factors of a posteriori balance, or emotional and relational dysfunctionality.