Sport psychology
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Sport psychology is a specialization within psychology that seeks to understand psychological/mental factors that affect performance in sports, physical activity and exercise and apply these to enhance individual and team performance. Most researchers and practitioners focus on sport and/or exercise activities.
The principles and theories may be applied to any human movement or performance tasks (i.e., playing a musical instrument, acting in a play, public speaking, motor skills).
There are over 100 graduate programs in sport psychology available world-wide. Usually, experts recommend that students be trained in both kinesiology (i.e., sport & exercise sciences, physical education) and psychology/counselling.
[edit] See also
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- Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology
- Sport Psychologists at the Australian Psychological Society (APS) website
- McGaughey, William (2001). Rhythm and Self-Consciousness: New Ideals for an Electronic Civilization. Minneapolis: Thistlerose Publications. ISBN 0960563040.
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