Sports Psychology: Concepts and Applications

This book explores the essential aspects of sports psychology, covering topics such as anxiety, stress, conflicts, overtraining, and sports injuries, and providing strategies for managing and developing skills for better performance in various sports activities. It is engaging and reader-friendly, useful for students, researchers, teachers, trainees, coaches, sports associations, managing bodies, and sport psychologists.

Format: Hardback
Length: 436 pages
Publication date: 01 December 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive book delves into the intricate realm of sports psychology, shedding light on various aspects crucial for athletes' mental well-being and enhancing their performance in sports activities. On one hand, it explores topics such as anxiety, stress, conflicts, overtraining, and sports injuries, providing valuable insights into managing and developing skills for optimal performance across different sports. On the other, it offers comprehensive discussions on historical perspectives, heredity and environment, growth and development, individual differences in sports psychology, and the influence of factors like intelligence, cognitive and emotional processes, personality, and motivation on learning and transfer of knowledge.

The book also delves into the critical role of attention, concentration, and focus in athletes' performance, highlighting the mental and psychological states exhibited by athletes during anxiety, stress, conflicts, aggression, and violence. Additionally, it addresses the management of sports injuries, the phenomenon of overtraining and burnout in athletes, and the dynamics of group dynamics and guidance and counseling in the learning and development of athletes.

Written in an engaging and reader-friendly style, this book is invaluable for students, researchers, teachers of physical education, psychology, applied psychology, and sports psychology. It serves as a key resource for trainees in various sport academies, coaches, sports associations, managing bodies, and sport psychologists, providing valuable insights and practical strategies for optimizing athletes' mental and physical performance.

Weight: 1000g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032590714