The field of sport psychology is gaining ground, becoming more and more integrated in the world of sport in general and in the world of ultra trail running in particular. Although this sport is booming, little is known about the psychological characteristics of these athletes, who dare to challenge long distances in extremely hostile natural terrain and riddled with obstacles. These challenges can lead, under certain conditions, ultra trail runners to be immersed in stress processes that, if prolonged over time, can turn into distress and lead to more suffering than enjoyment for an activity that, in the beginning, was chosen to develop. In order to counteract stress in the ultra trail runner, there are several strategies. In this paper, far from pretending to exhaust the existing possibilities, but simply to outline various proposals, we will take the contributions of a systemic view, c...

This article presents a critical but encouraging vision of systemic therapy in Latin America. Seen from the history of the first systemic investigations and its protagonists, to define what is psychotherapy from this perspective. Collect a series of impressions that enter in the therapy itself and the role of systemic psychologist, but the analysis is not reduced there: it is contextualized in different problems that affecting Latin countries. Understands that the role of psychologist as an active figure in different context, social, cultural, economic, health, among others and represents a catalyst in solving psychosocial problems, a corrective agent crisis, that is tos ay, angles detour in cybernetic terms.

The field of sport psychology is gaining ground, becoming more and more integrated in the world of sport in general and in the world of ultra trail running in particular. Although this sport is booming, little is known about the psychological characteristics of these athletes, who dare to challenge long distances in extremely hostile natural terrain and riddled with obstacles. These challenges can lead, under certain conditions, ultra trail runners to be immersed in stress processes that, if prolonged over time, can turn into distress and lead to more suffering than enjoyment for an activity that, in the beginning, was chosen to develop. In order to counteract stress in the ultra trail runner, there are several strategies. In this paper, far from pretending to exhaust the existing possibilities, but simply to outline various proposals, we will take the contributions of a systemic view, c...