Overview
- Provides the reader with an up-to-date picture of the scholarship in the coach education field
- Brings perspectives on how to become a sports coach across the lifespan
- Discusses how to develop a positive self-perspective about coaching
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Keywords
- Sports and Coaching
- Human Development and Coaching
- Promoting Cohesive Teams
- Developing Research on Sports Coaching
- Coach Education
- Coach Efficacy
- Coaching Young Athletes
- Coaching Adult Athletes
- Coaching Professional Athletes
- Coaching and Aging
- Coaching Athletes with Disabilities
- Coaching and Gender Issues
- Coaching and Technology
- Stress and Burnout in Coaching
Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Becoming a Sports Coach
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Acting as a Sports Coach
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Challenges of Sports Coaching
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Rui Gomes is an Assistant Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Minho, Portugal. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Minho. He has research interests on human adaptation to stress, leadership and team performance, and training life skills and human performance. He leads the research group “Adaptation, Performance and Human Development”, which was created in 2007 (www.ardh.pt). He leads the intervention project “School of Life Skills” (www.e-cv.pt). As a sport psychologist, he consults athletes and their families, coaches, and sport managers.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Coaching for Human Development and Performance in Sports
Editors: Rui Resende, A. Rui Gomes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63912-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63911-2Published: 19 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63914-3Published: 19 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-63912-9Published: 18 March 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 477
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations, 69 illustrations in colour
Topics: Positive Psychology, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Consulting, Supervision and Coaching, Social/Human Development Studies, Sport Psychology