A Coach's Guide to Maximizing the Youth Sport Experience: Work Hard, Be Kind

Mary Fry,Lori Gano-Overway,Marta Guivernau,Mi-Sook Kim,Maria Newton

A Coach's Guide to Maximizing the Youth Sport Experience: Work Hard, Be Kind
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 October 2019
Pages
210
ISBN
9780367254155

A Coach’s Guide to Maximizing the Youth Sport Experience: Work Hard, Be Kind

Mary Fry,Lori Gano-Overway,Marta Guivernau,Mi-Sook Kim,Maria Newton

This book guides sport coaches, parents and administrators in creating a caring and task-involving sport climate that helps athletes perform their best and have an enjoyable and meaningful sport experience. It introduces the concept of a caring and task-involving climate and provides a how to guide to creating this climate in sport.

Firstly, this guide introduces the caring and task-involving climate and summarizes research highlighting its many benefits. Secondly, the five features of this climate are presented along with the reflective exercises for developing them within a team. Coaches will see strategies in action, sample conversations, and a variety of ways to implement the features of a caring and task-involving experience. By describing how it may be implemented and methods for overcoming possible challenges, this book finally highlights how parents and sport administrators can support the creation and preservation of caring and task-involving climates.

By helping teams develop caring climates that optimize athletes’ sport experience and performance, this book is essential reading for coaches, sport administrators, parents, and sport psychology practitioners. It will also be of great interest to those who have minimal training in sport psychology, but who are involved in sport at many levels, such as youth and high school.

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