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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Sports training & coaching > Sports psychology
Today, more than 68 million children and adolescents participate in
sport programs in the United States. Yet despite the growth and
popularity of highly-organized athletic competition, controversy
still swirls around the role that adults, particularly coaches,
play in the world of youth sports. Coaches not only occupy a
critical leadership position in the athletic setting, but their
influence can extend into other areas of life as well. Sport
Psychology for Youth Coaches is a practical "how-to" guide that
helps coaches use their leadership role to achieve optimal benefits
for young athletes, both on and off the field/court. It is designed
to help coaches create rewarding experiences for young athletes and
provides specific behavioral guidelines that have proven to have
positive, and lasting, effects. The authors address a wide range of
everyday concerns including motivation, stress reduction,
psychological skills, relations with parents, legal
responsibilities, and other areas of importance to both coaches and
athletes. Using clear examples and real stories, they help coaches
hone their own skills so they can bring out the best in their young
competitors - in sports and in life. No coach should be without
this essential guide, whose principles have been successfully
applied and tested on thousands of coaches around the world.
Mental health within elite sport has traditionally been ignored,
but recent research has shown that competitive sport can at times
seriously undermine mental health and that athletes are exposed to
specific stressors that hinder their mental health optimisation.
Mental Health and Well-being Interventions in Sport provides an
indispensable guide for researchers and practitioners wanting to
understand and implement sport-based intervention processes. This
important book adopts an evidenced based approach, discussing the
context of the intervention, its design and implementation, and its
evaluation and legacy. With cases on depression, eating disorders,
and athletic burnout, the book is designed to provide
practitioners, policy makers and researchers with a cutting-edge
overview of the key issues involved in this burgeoning area, while
also including cases on how sport itself has been used as a method
to improve mental health. Written for newcomers and established
practitioners alike, the text is an essential read for researchers
and practitioners in better understanding the sport setting-based
intervention processes through presenting current research, theory
and practice, applicable in a variety of sports settings and
contexts.
In this book John Connolly and Paddy Dolan illustrate and explain
developments in Gaelic games, the Gaelic Athletic Association
(GAA), and Irish society over the course of the last 150 years. The
main themes in the book include: advances in the threshold of
repugnance towards violence in the playing of Gaelic games, changes
in the structure of spectator violence, diminishing displays of
superiority towards the competing sports of soccer and rugby, the
tension between decentralising and centralising processes, the
movement in the balance between amateurism and professionalism,
changes in the power balance between 'elite' players and
administrators, and the difficulties in developing a new hybrid
sport. The authors also explain how these developments were
connected to various social processes including changes in the
structure of Irish society and in the social habitus of people in
Ireland.
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