Psychological dynamics of sport and exercise

This completely re-written and updated text provides students with a comprehensive overview of sport and exercise psychology. Written to reflect the growth in the sport psychology field since the first edition was released, this book covers many new topics, included are chapters on: approaches to knowledge, goal setting, stress management and educational sport psychology and psychological skills training. Many of the chapters now include special sidebar elements highlighting specific research that is going on in sub-areas of sport and exercise psychology.