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Ethics In Sport And Exercise Psychology Eb V16#1
Author details coming soon.Published April 2006
Ethics in Sport and Exercise Psychology explores professional issues that pose unique challenges to those working in the rapidly expanding field of sport psychology. The papers included in this special issue feature the insights of experienced professionals in sport and exercise psychology. Topics…
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BIOS Instant Notes in Sport and Exercise Psychology
- By Dave Shaw, Trish Gorely and Rod Corban.
Published October 2004
Instant Notes in Sport and Exercise Psychology provides concise coverage of sport and exercise psychology at the undergraduate level, and also covers the crucial basic psychology that underpins the subject. It has four main themes:
theoretical approaches and research methods
sport psychology at…
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Rethinking Aggression and Violence in Sport
- By John H. Kerr.
Published September 2004
Rethinking Aggression and Violence in Sport explores the psychological aspects of these two intrinsic elements of competitive sport.
This book critically examines the important issues associated with aggression and violence in sport, including:
* a review of current theory in the psychology…
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Critical Moments During Competition
A Mind-Body Model of Sport Performance When It Counts the Most
- By Roland A. Carlstedt.
Published July 2004
This book presents first-time research findings and new empirically based perspectives and applications in sport psychology.Highly provocative data derived from the largest single study ever on athletes is used to advance an original model of peak performance centering on a clearly emerging…
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Skill Acquisition in Sport
Research, Theory and Practice
- Edited by A. Mark Williams, and Nicola J. Hodges.
Published March 2004
Success in sport depends upon the athlete's ability to develop and perfect a specific set of perceptual, cognitive and motor skills.
This book examines how we learn such skills and, in particular, considers the crucial role of practice and instruction in the process. Leading authorities within the…
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Sport and Exercise Psychology
A Critical Introduction
- By Aidan P. Moran.
Published December 2003
Sport and exercise psychology is a rapidly expanding field both academically and professionally. Aidan Moran, former psychologist to the Irish Olympic squad, provides the first textbook to combine an explanation of the theoretical foundations of sport and exercise psychology with critical reviews…
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Development of Movement Coordination in Children
Applications in the Field of Ergonomics, Health Sciences and Sport
- Edited by Geert Savelsbergh, Keith Davids, John van der Kamp and Simon J. Bennett.
Published May 2003
Co-ordination of movement plays a key role in human development and is an important area in sport and health sciences. This book looks in detail at how children develop basic skills, such as walking and reaching for objects, and more complex skills such as throwing and catching a ball…
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Interceptive Actions in Sport
Information and Movement
- Edited by Simon Bennett, Keith Davids, Geert J.P. Savelsbergh and John van der Kamp.
Published May 2002
Dynamic interceptive actions are those actions for which the body, or an implement, must be moved into the right place at the right time in order to accomplish a task. These actions are particularly prevalent in sport, for example reaching to catch a ball or running towards a target to make a…
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Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Key Concepts
- By Ellis Cashmore.
Published May 2002
Psychology is an integral element of sport today, from the applied techniques of coaches and athletes, to the socio-psychological behaviour of sport fans. Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Key Concepts offers an introductory guide to the vocabulary of sport psychology, to its central theories and…
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Psychology of Physical Activity
Determinants, Well-Being and Interventions
- By Nanette Mutrie, and Stuart J.H. Biddle.
Published February 2001