About this Course

The course will expose you to many topics within the field that you may be aware of, as well as many new ideas that should help you understand and motivate the individuals with whom you will work in a sports or exercise setting. Becoming a sports psychologist consultant for a professional team may not be in everyone’s future. Helping sport or exercise participants reach his or her potential as an athlete may be more realistic for many of us, and that is the common goal for those interested in the combination of sport and principles of psychology.

This course will focuses on the motivational phenomenon that affects the performance of individual athletes and teams. Stress and leadership will also be covered.

COURSE GOALS

Student will enhance their knowledge and successfully accomplish the following:

• Be familiar with the personality characteristics, individual orientations, and emotions that affect performance and psychological development in sport physical education and exercise setting.
  
• Be familiar with the three main topics of psychological development and wellbeing that are important to both society and sport exercise psychology.
  
• Be able to identify how groups formed and how they function, the relationship between individual and group performance.
  
• Be familiar with the effects psychological factors on physical or motor development.
  
• Identify the effects of participating in physical activity on psychological development, health and wellbeing.
  
• Be able to identify principles and guidelines that professionals use to help adults and children.
  
• Be able to explain the situational factors that influence behavior.
  
• Be able to identify how sport psychologist use psychological techniques to help athletes achieve optimum performance.
  
• Study the increased interest in health, exercise and wellness including exercise and health psychology for the past 25 years and the role that psychological factors play in this development
  

AWARD

Upon successful completion of the course, participants will be awarded:

Certificate in Sports Psychology by the United States Sports Academy, ‘America’s Sports University”.

Assessment Methods

Students will sit for a written examination at the end of each module.

COURSE DURATION

The course may be completed in 8weeks (40 hours) 

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