Applied Sport Psychology and Leadership in Sport Certificate
With over 12 hours of highly engaging content, covering every area of sport psychology, and including numerous examples from contemporary sport, this is the most comprehensive sport psychology course available on Udemy.
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With over 12 hours of highly engaging content, covering every area of sport psychology, and including numerous examples from contemporary sport, this is the most comprehensive sport psychology course available on Udemy.
With over 12 hours of highly engaging content, covering every area of sport psychology, and including numerous examples from contemporary sport, this is the most comprehensive sport psychology course available on Udemy.
The course is presented as an applied sport psychology course for coaches, athletes and leaders in sport or anybody considering some learning in this area.
Using a series of multiple choice quizzes and a complimentary 45 page work-book with 33 separate practical tasks across 57 different lessons, this extensive course is designed to significantly enhance your knowledge and understanding in this area as an athlete, coach, sport psychologist, or leader in your field. Also included, are applied exercises on goal setting, self-talk, vizualisation, mindfulness and anxiety management, with practical tips and advice around mental skills implementation.
With over 20 years coaching and performance psychology experience across a range of sports and levels, from child and youth level up to and including elite international and Olympic level (see bio for further details), I have developed this course to help you broaden your understanding of sport psychology in an easy and practical manner. With applied references to the most cutting edge research in sport psychology, I have included countless examples of how the world's best teams, coaches, sport psychologists and athletes apply best practice in utilization of key sport psychology principles in their pursuit of excellence.
This course is pitched at a very attainable level to cater for all learners. The course is built to National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) Level 4 education standards in the UK. This equates to equivalent of Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI) Level 6 standard course in Ireland, or pre-university course in other countries. Those who finish the course will receive Udemy certification on completion.
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Thank you for taking the time to research this course. I look forward to you signing up and seeing you on the other side, where you will greatly enhance your knowledge in this area.
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Learning objectives
- Unit 1 - introduction to sport psychology - history of sport psychology, the role of & how to become a sport psychologist, career opportunities in the field
- Unit 2 - social perspectives - drop-out from youth sport, gender differentiation and disability, parenting in sport, character development
- Unit 3 - considerations for psychological skills training (pst) - regulating anxiety, over-arousal and stress, attention control and processing efficiency,
- Unit 4 - psychological skills training - attentional focus, self tal self confidence, visualisation, performance profiling, goal-setting & arousal regulation,
- Unit 5 - team processes – motivation, group cohesion & team dynamics, self-efficacy in sport. theories of motivation, improving motivation
- Unit 6 - effective leadership and communication - athlete needs, transformational leadership, creating a positive team climate, values based approaches
- Unit 7 - enhancing health and well-being - resilience / mental toughness, exercise and psychological well-being, burnout and over-training, well-being factors
- Complementary work-book, including 33 practical engagement tasks to develop your knowledge across all areas.
- Numerous additional resources including blog articles and youtube clips to support your learning and development.
- Unit 1 - introduction to sport psychology - history of sport psychology, the role of & how to become a sport psychologist, career opportunities in the field
- Unit 2 - social perspectives - drop-out from youth sport, gender differentiation and disability, parenting in sport, character development
- Unit 3 - considerations for psychological skills training (pst) - regulating anxiety, over-arousal and stress, attention control and processing efficiency,
- Unit 4 - psychological skills training - attentional focus, self tal self confidence, visualisation, performance profiling, goal-setting & arousal regulation,
- Unit 5 - team processes – motivation, group cohesion & team dynamics, self-efficacy in sport. theories of motivation, improving motivation
- Unit 6 - effective leadership and communication - athlete needs, transformational leadership, creating a positive team climate, values based approaches
- Unit 7 - enhancing health and well-being - resilience / mental toughness, exercise and psychological well-being, burnout and over-training, well-being factors
- Complementary work-book, including 33 practical engagement tasks to develop your knowledge across all areas.
- Numerous additional resources including blog articles and youtube clips to support your learning and development.
Syllabus
What is sport psychology • How sport psychology might help a team • History of sport psychology • The role of and how to become a sport psychologist • Career opportunities in the field
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Syllabus
Introduction
What is sport psychology
How sport psychology might help a team
Early history of sport psychology
Post WW2 history of sport psychology development.
Modern history of sport psychology
Role of a sport psychologist
Becoming a sport psychologist
Career opportunities
Exit pass
Short multiple choice quiz on Unit 1
Why children play sport
Reasons for drop-out from youth sport
The development and growth of women's involvement in sport from mid 1800's to present day.
Physical disability in sport and Paralympic movement.
Intellectual disability in sport and growth of Special Olympics movement.
Understanding and explaining aggression in sport
Understanding character development and good sporting behavior.
Exit Pass 2
This is a short multiple choice quiz on Unit 2
Short multiple choice quiz on Unit 3
Short multiple choice quiz on Unit 4.
Effective Leadership - A Values Based Approach.
New Zealand All-Blacks example.
A values based approach - Limerick Senior Hurling Team, Carlow GAA and Offaly GAA examples.
Developing a sense of purpose
This is a very short multiple choice quiz on leadership, communication and motivation.
What resilience is.
What resilience isn't.
"Super Champions" V's "Almost Champions".
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Engineer
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