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HL32024: Advanced sports psychology

[Page last updated: 22 April 2025]

Academic Year: 2025/26
Owning Department/School: Department for Health
Credits: 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 200
Level: Honours (FHEQ level 6)
Period:
Academic Year
Assessment Summary: CWES 50%, CWOI 50%
Assessment Detail:
  • Oral presentation Individual (CWOI 50%)
  • Essay (CWES 50%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites: Before taking this module you must take HL22020
Learning Outcomes:
  • State how a sport psychologist can assess the needs of an athlete and formulate a case.
  • Discuss how a sport psychologist can support an athlete during critical moments (e.g., injury, major competition), using relevant theory and research.
  • Create a detailed evidence-based intervention plan to effectively support an athlete.
  • Appraise how the proposed intervention could be implemented with an athlete.
  • Illustrate how the interventions' effectiveness could be evaluated and communicated.



Synopsis: Develop a critical understanding of how a sport psychologist can help athletes improve their sports performance, and support athletes during critical moments (e.g., major competition, injury, retirement). You will also gain practical experience of how a sport psychologist assesses the needs of an athlete and creates and plans to evaluate the effects of an evidence-based and theoretically driven intervention.

Content: Practical experience of the sport psychology consulting process: e.g., needs analysis, case formulation, and characteristics and skills required to be an effective sport psychology practitioner. Overview of critical moments where sport psychologists can support athletes (theory, research, and application): e.g., major competition, injury rehabilitation, career transitions, mid-burnout. Exploration of hot topics and advanced training techniques in sport psychology (theory, research, and application): e.g., teamwork and team building, resilience and pressure training, attentional control and mindfulness, and stress responses and rational emotive behavioural therapy.

Course availability:

HL32024 is Optional on the following courses:

Department for Health
  • UHHL-AFB30 : BSc(Hons) Sport (Sports Performance) (Year 1)

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