Sport Psychology for Coaches

This is a text for undergraduates pursuing professions as coaches, physical education teachers and sport psychologists. This book presents an applied approach to sport psychology and is designed to enable coaches and students to understand key sport psychology tools. It provides coaches with a practical discussion of motivation, communication, stress management, mental imagery and other important topics. It is a reader-friendly organisation that includes: learning objectives that introduce each chapter; sidebars illustrating sport-specific applications of key concepts and principles and chapter summaries. The book also features: chapter review questions for appraising comprehension of the chapter's contents; and, application scenarios that illustrate how concepts discussed in the chapter can be applied in real-world scenarios and a comprehensive glossary.

This book reflects Damon Burton's 25 years of experience as a teacher, coach, researcher, consultant and coaching educator. Burton has a Ph.D. in sport psychology from the University of Illinois specialising in applied sport psychology and coaching education, and has taught undergraduate and graduate applied sport psychology courses at the University of Idaho for 24 years. Thomas Raedeke has a Ph.D. specialising in sport and exercise psychology from the University of Oregon. He has taught undergraduate and graduate applied sport psychology courses focusing on coaching education and mental skills training at the University of Oregon, University of Colorado and East Carolina University over the past 15 years.