Counselling Skills in Applied Sport Psychology is a new text that provides a 'how to' in basic counselling skills for sport psychology students and practitioners.
This book introduces readers to Psychoadaptation-a general model of change that stresses the importance of experiencing disequilibrium in the development of a healthy Self-and applies it to a range of examples across the academic, sport, and health domains.
Disability and Motor Behavior: A Handbook of Research provides the first focused review of research and scholarship pertaining to individuals with disabilities across motor behavior-related disciplines (e.
As more people realize the cardiovascular, metabolic and muscular benefits that regular physical activity provides, the risk for potential injury also increases.
This important book provides practical and immediately applicable information about consulting in sport psychology in an accessible, step-by-step manner, focusing on lessons based on individual, team, and organizational levels.
This important book provides practical and immediately applicable information about consulting in sport psychology in an accessible, step-by-step manner, focusing on lessons based on individual, team, and organizational levels.
This international compilation offers a range of potential solutions to case studies that cover pertinent issues within a variety of performance environments.
Human strength testing has advanced as technology has evolved; from evaluating strength in a general and unspecialized way through to more scientific methods being applied to help performance and prevent injury.
Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, Research Methods for Sport Management provides a complete introduction to qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods for sport management students and practitioners.
Learning from Serial Winning Coaches provides performance coaches and directors, coach developers, and researchers with the knowledge and tools to affirm and challenge policy and practice and conduct further research to inform future policy and practice in the identification, recruitment, and development of performance coaches.
This international compilation offers a range of potential solutions to case studies that cover pertinent issues within a variety of performance environments.
Training and Supervision in Sport and Exercise Psychology presents a labyrinth of choices and challenges for trainees and supervisors, such as training and supervision mixing the science of doing sport and exercise psychology with the art of judgement and decision-making to deliver services to athletes.
Training and Supervision in Sport and Exercise Psychology presents a labyrinth of choices and challenges for trainees and supervisors, such as training and supervision mixing the science of doing sport and exercise psychology with the art of judgement and decision-making to deliver services to athletes.
This book provides core coaching principles and beliefs for you to operate from as you manage your team, as well as guidance to help you develop key coaching skills including listening, asking effective questions, building rapport and how to give constructive (performance-based) feedback.
Placebo effects have been recognised by medicine and by science, yet only recently has systematic research begun to fully understand what they are and how they work.
This book demonstrates how creative research methods can be used to better understand the experiences of children, particularly in the context of sport, physical activity and health.
This book demonstrates how creative research methods can be used to better understand the experiences of children, particularly in the context of sport, physical activity and health.
The Psychology of Golf Performance under Pressure offers contemporary, research-informed information regarding the key psychological factors affecting golf development and performance under pressure.
Game-Based Approaches in Physical Education: International Applications presents 22 chapters, including 18 teaching units to be applied in physical education or youth sport, divided into 4 categories of games and an additional category of performance activities.
Game-Based Approaches in Physical Education: International Applications presents 22 chapters, including 18 teaching units to be applied in physical education or youth sport, divided into 4 categories of games and an additional category of performance activities.
In this fully revised third edition of Isokinetics: Muscle Testing, Interpretation and Clinical Applications, a group of international experts cover the main developments that have taken place in the field of isokinetics in the last 20 years.
In this fully revised third edition of Isokinetics: Muscle Testing, Interpretation and Clinical Applications, a group of international experts cover the main developments that have taken place in the field of isokinetics in the last 20 years.
The United Nations Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA) offers a bold new agenda for handling the issue of ageing in the 21st century.
The United Nations Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA) offers a bold new agenda for handling the issue of ageing in the 21st century.
The global increase in viewership of and participation in women's football means that, to continue with this growth, we need to appreciate the specific scientific and health issues that determine successful performance for women.
The sensory revolution in the social sciences is transforming the ways in which the senses and the sensorium are studied and understood in relation to bodies in action.
Elite youth sport competitions have increased significantly in number in recent years, with the Youth Olympic Games representing the high point of this phenomenon.
Uno de los principales interrogantes que intenta resolver este libro consiste en entender el concepto de competencia desde un enfoque histórico y teórico de las ciencias de la educación, que concibe al ser humano como un ser competente en vez de competitivo.
Bewegte Schule, Bewegungsfreundliche Schule, Bewegungsfreudige Schule - es gibt verschiedene Begriffe für dasselbe Grundanliegen: Schulen sollen bewegungsfreundlicher und das Schulleben der Schülerinnen und Schüler soll bewegungsfreudiger werden.
