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Association for Applied Sport Psychology: Video Resources
As a resource for its students, the Student Development Committee recorded several brief interviews with students and professionals with the goal of providing advice to students on various topics, like research, grants, choosing a graduate program, and starting a practice.
Coaching Psychology for Health, Fitness, and Mental Health Professionals
This workshop teaches 18 core coaching skills and three coaching processes that are grounded in evidence-based coaching psychology.
Ideas Roadshow: The Mind-Body Problem
Athlete Janko Tipsarevic speaks with Howard Burton about intimate aspects of sports psychology, the challenge of consistently maintaining a single-minded focus in an individual sport and the joys of professional commitment.
Maximizing Performance: Inside Sports Psychology
Dr. Tiffany Michelle Bellamy discusses sports psychology and her job as a sports psychologist. Bellamy discusses how sports psychology affects sport performance, the treatments that she uses, and advice for students who want to go into the field.
Science in the Arena
This program shows three contributions of modern science to the feats of athletes including sports psychology, which uses various psychological techniques, such as autosuggestion, rituals, mental imagery, and relaxation, that enable athletes to extend their physical limits;
Sociology of Sports
Examines the development of sports sociology; probes the relationship of sports to religion, social roles, citizenship and morality; and looks at the organization and institutionalization of sports.
The Sociology of Sports in the United States
Explores what sports can teach about society and considers how social goals and objectives are reflected in sports.
Sports Psychology
Designed by a leading sports psychologist, this program explains how to improve performance by commitment, communication, and attitude.
Sports Psychology: Mental Preparation
In this video, viewers learn about the ways in which sports psychology can overcome barriers to improvement and high performance. Real-world, visually engaging examples are used to introduce some of the more common mental problems faced by athletes, and to show how sports psychology can tackle these problems.
Sports Psychology: Motivation, Anxiety, and Focus
This video examines the effects of repetitive training on motivation and the internal and external factors that can affect it. Sports psychologists and coaches discuss the effects of anxiety and the pressures, both intrinsic and extrinsic, that athletes often feel. Athletes and their coaches also discuss physical and social stress, how to manage it, and how to turn it to the athlete’s advantage.

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