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) |
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Assessment Summary: | CWES 50%, CWOI 50% |
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Requisites: | Before taking this module you must take HL22020 |
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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. |
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HL32024 is Optional on the following courses:Department for Health
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