Sports Performance: Exploring Sport Psychology
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Sports Performance: Exploring Sport Psychology at FutureLearn Overview
Sports Performance: Exploring Sport Psychology
at FutureLearn
Explore how sport psychology can contribute to supporting your own or others' sports performance.
Duration | 4 weeks |
Total fee | ₹900 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Credential | Certificate |
Sports Performance: Exploring Sport Psychology at FutureLearn Highlights
Sports Performance: Exploring Sport Psychology
at FutureLearn
- Earn a certificate upon completion
Sports Performance: Exploring Sport Psychology at FutureLearn Course details
Sports Performance: Exploring Sport Psychology
at FutureLearn
Skills you will learn
What are the course deliverables?
- What modern sport psychology is and how it is evolving
- Examples of how sport psychologists can enhance athlete performance
- Athlete welfare and enhancing mental health
- How psychologically informed training environments impact on athletes and their motivation
- Applying insights into athlete resilience, confidence and coping with pressure to your own sporting or personal context
More about this course
- On this four-week course, you’ll discover how sport psychology is applied to coaching, individual athletes, and competition to help you to guide others or better understand your own sporting experiences
- You’ll change how you view sports psychology and gain new skills and confidence to identify valuable next steps to develop yourself and others in sport
- Designed for anyone with an interest in the psychology of sports performance, you’ll learn from Open University experts, sports psychologists, and practising athletes about what it’s really like to use sport psychology to inform training and welfare
- You’ll gain skills to help you understand how athletes respond to pressure, with tools and techniques to create psychologically informed sporting environments to motivate athletes and enhance their mental health
Sports Performance: Exploring Sport Psychology at FutureLearn Curriculum
Sports Performance: Exploring Sport Psychology
at FutureLearn
Exploring sport psychology
Welcome!
The role of sport psychology
Athletes' experiences and welfare
The psychology of sports injuries
Exploring the influence of sport environments
Creating a motivational climate
Sporting culture and mental health
Creating supportive environments
Psychological interventions to support athletes
Wrap-up
What are the sources of athletes' resilience or confidence?
Is resilience a 'thing' or a set of qualities?
Psychological skills and techniques
Enhancing confidence skills
Wrap-up
Athletes' responses to pressure and challenge
Harnessing your emotions
The psychology of pressure
Athletes' journeys through sport
Wrap-up
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