Applying educational psychology in coaching athletes [Book Review]
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Alan Chu, Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Sport coaches are influential leaders who have frequent interactions with athletes and thus have important impacts on athletes’ physical and psychosocial well-being (Conroy & Coatsworth, Citation2006). “Applying Educational Psychology in Coaching Athletes” – a user-friendly practical book with 11 chapters – is a text that exclusively covers how to incorporate different psychological concepts in coaching athletes. The focus and goal of that book is on helping readers become effective coaches through applying psychological principles, grounded in educational psychology in particular, in teaching and learning. This book is based in both the science and the art of coaching by emphasising a scientific-practitioner approach to understand athletes with artistic and humanistic adaptations. Based on the premise of teaching athletes as human beings both inside and outside of sport contexts, this book views effective coaching as developing athletes who are not only competitive and confident in the sport arena but also physically and psychologically healthy in their life. Throughout his book, Huber – a three-time U.S. Olympic coach and veteran collegiate diving coach – includes applications and specific examples of effective coaching in working with athletes across various competition levels.
Applying educational psychology in coaching athletes [Book Review]
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Sports Coaching Review, 9(1)
- Language: English
- Date: 2019
- Keywords
- educational psychology, sports psychology, coaching, athletes