Lecture: 3 hours/week
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Interactive Lecture: 1 hour/week
In this course, students engage in a variety of learning activities such as lecture, group discussion, self-study from assigned materials, case studies, and practical activities such as discussion, collaboration in groups (in class and online), case analysis, and video observations.
- Awareness in sport and exercise psychology
- The environment and sport and exercise psychology
- Positive reinforcement and feedback
- Expectations and self-fulfilling prophecies
- Communication in sport and exercise
- Team cohesion and team building
- Parents in sport
- Motivation
- Psychological characteristics of peak performance
- Theoretical aspects
- Research on peak performance in sport
- Assessment of peak performance
- Psychological skills, interventions and strategies
- Goal setting
- Arousal, emotion, performance relationship
- Imagery
- Cognitive strategies for building confidence
- Concentration and attentional control
- Implementing psychological skills training (PST) programs
- Theoretical aspects
- Research on PST program effectiveness
- Season planning for PST
- Additional topics in sport and exercise psychology
- Clinical issues in sport and exercise psychology
- Psychology of injury and rehabilitation
- Overtraining and burnout in sport
- Career transitions in sport
- Gender, diversity, and cultural considerations in sport and exercise psychology
- identify and describe the mental skills required for optimal performance in sport and health outcomes;
- develop and apply mental skills in personal and hypothetical situations guided by constructive feedback;
- reflect on and apply theoretical and conceptual knowledge of sport and exercise psychology to personal lived experiences;
- develop practical competence with regard to the application and delivery of mental skills training in sport and exercise psychology;
- interpret, analyze, and evaluate personal strengths and weaknesses and areas for improvement within the area of mental skills and sport and exercise psychology;
- design a personal mental training plan based on a self-evaluation and personalized goal setting process.
Assessment will be in accordance with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy. The instructor will present a written course outline with specific evaluation criteria at the beginning of the semester. Evaluation will be based on the following:
Test(s) 10-40%
Projects 10-40%
Discussions 0-30%
Quizzes 0-25%
Journals 10-30%
Participation & Check-Ins 0-20%
Final Exam 0-40%
Total: 100%
Instructors may use a student’s record of attendance and/or level of active participation in the course as part of the student’s graded performance. Where this occurs, expectations and grade calculations regarding class attendance and participation will be clearly defined in the Instructor Course Outline.
Consult the Douglas College Bookstore for the latest required textbooks and materials. Example textbooks and materials may include:
Williams, J. M. & Krane, V. (Current Edition). Applied Sport Psychology: Personal Growth to Peak Performance. McGraw-Hill.
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