COURSE OUTLINE     

Course Title:              Sports Psychology                  Course Code:  PEDU-6116

Credit Hours: 03                                                        Instructor:  Rashid Naeem Khan

DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES

This course intends to provide an insight into the psychological factors associates with sports performance.  Students are guided to provide psychological assistance with injury rehabilitates, pain tolerance, performance enhancement, relaxation etc;

INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES

The focus is primarily in helping athletes using psychological principles and skills to achieve optimal mental health and to enhance performance.  After this course students are able 

• To deal Psycho-Pathological disorders of the athletes

• Consult with athletes and teams with a view to providing psychological skills training appropriate to the individual and commensurate with their level of participation.

• Consult with organizations, individuals and exercise professionals with regards to exercise psychology skills training and consultation.

• Organize and operate workshops for coaches, teachers and exercise specialist in aspects of sport and exercise psychology.

• Guide and advise clubs, schools, coaches, parents and athletes in the application of sport psychology theories and practices and assist in the area of planning and implementing policy relating to participation, performance and periodisation of the training from a psychological perspective.

• Provide an arena for sports people to engage in reflective assessment of their involvement in sports, exercise and future developments.

• Plan and conduct research in sport and exercise 

COURSE CONTENTS

1. Introduction of Psychology

• Introduction of sports psychology

• Significance of psychology in sports

• Psychological obstacles for performance

1. Personality of sports 

• Introduction

• Theories of personality

• Measurement of personality

• Personality and sports performance

1. Nervous System

• Structure and control of movement

• Factors affecting performance

• Fatigue (central and peripheral)

• Glands and their effects on behavior

• Response mechanism is human body

• Neuro-physiology of arousal

1. Motivation and Performance

• Introduction to motivation

• Types and theories of motivation

• Sports motivation scale

• Positive reinforcement and performance feed back

• Self confidence

• Goals setting

1. Cognitive and Behavioral Interventions for Peak Performance

• Relaxation strategies (breathing, meditation, progressive relaxation techniques, bio feed back, autogenic training and mind to muscle or muscle to mind relaxation).

• Arousal energizing strategies (goal setting, pep talks, pre competition work outs, self talks, self thoughts, interaction between parent coach and athlete coach, fan support publicity and news coverage).

• Hypnosis (suggestions)

1. Concentration 

• Types of intentional focus (measurement of intentional focus, experimental approach, psychometric approach and neuro scientific approach).

• Importance of concentration in sports

• Principles of effective concentrations

• Factors that effects concentration

• Techniques to enhance concentration

1. Aggression

• Introduction and types of aggression?

• Theories of aggression

• Measurement of aggression in sports

• Reducing aggression in sports

1. Stress

• Theories of stress

• Neuro chemical aspects of stress

• Dynamics of sports stress

• Effects of sports stress

1. Goal Setting

• Introduction of goals settings in sports

• Types of goals

• Rational of goal settings

• How goals effects performance?

• Criteria for goal selection (guide lines for principles of goal settings)

• Common pit falls in goals setting

1. Self Confidence 

• Introduction of sports self confidence

• Influence of self confidence on sports performance

• Conceptual models of self confidence

• Sources of self confidence

• Development of self-confidence through self-talks self-thoughts and psychological momentum for peak performance.

1. Sports Cohesions

• Introduction and types of cohesion

• Measurement of cohesion

• Factors effecting cohesion

• Interventions to enhance sports cohesion

• Introduction of conflicts

• Types of conflicts • Strategies of conflict management

READINGS

1. Weinberg, Robert. S., & Daniel, 4Th Edition. Foundations of sport and exercise psychology. Human Kinetics.

2. Jarvis, M. (2006). Sport psychology: a student’s handbook/Matt Jarvis. NY.: Routledge.

3. Birch, K., George, K., & McLaren, D. (2004). BIOS Instant Notes in Sport and Exercise Physiology. Routledge.

4. Lane, A. M. (Ed.). (2015). Sport and exercise psychology. Routledge.

5. Perry, J. (2016). Sport psychology: A complete introduction. Teach Yourself.

6. Van Raalte, J. L., & Brewer, B. W. (2014). Exploring sport and exercise psychology. American Psychological Association.

7. Moran, A. P. (2013). Sport and exercise psychology: A critical introduction. Routledge.