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Coaching for Human Development and Performance in Sports

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Editors:
  1. Rui Resende

    1. Life Quality Research Centre, University Institute of Maia, Maia, Portugal

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  2. A. Rui Gomes

    1. School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

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  • Provides the reader with an up-to-date picture of the scholarship in the coach education field
  • Brings perspectives on how to become a sports coach across the lifespan
  • Discusses how to develop a positive self-perspective about coaching

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Coaching for Human Development and Performance in Sports: Introduction

    • Rui Resende, A. Rui Gomes
    Pages 1-4

  3. Becoming a Sports Coach

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. Coaching in the Sport Domain: Definitions and Conceptualisations

      • John Lyle
      Pages 7-23

    3. Coaching Educational Programs: (Re)Conceptualising how Coaches Learn

      • Charles L. T. Corsby, Gethin L. Thomas, Manuel Santos
      Pages 25-41

    4. Coaching Efficacy: The Leadership Efficacy Model

      • A. Rui Gomes
      Pages 43-72

    5. Coaching Impact: The Transformational Coach in Sports

      • Jennifer Turnnidge, Jean Côté
      Pages 73-91

    6. Coaching Around the World: On Becoming a Profession

      • Sergio Lara-Bercial, John Bales, Julian North
      Pages 93-121

  4. Acting as a Sports Coach

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
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    2. Coaching Profession: Acting as a Coach

      • Paul Potrac, Brian Gearity, Adam Nichol, Callum Morgan, Edward Hall
      Pages 125-142

    3. Coaching Youth Athletes

      • Gordon A. Bloom, Lea-Cathrin Dohme, William R. Falcão
      Pages 143-167

    4. Coaching High Performance Athletes

      • Justine Allen, Bob Muir
      Pages 169-198

    5. Coaching Life Skills to Young Athletes in Sport Participation Contexts

      • A. Rui Gomes, Rui Resende
      Pages 199-223

    6. Coaching for Adventures Sports

      • Vinicius Zeilmann Brasil, Eva Ellmer, Ethan Greenberg, Vitor Ciampolini
      Pages 225-244

    7. Coaching Aging Athletes

      • Bettina Callary, Bradley W. Young, Diane M. Culver, Tania Cassidy
      Pages 245-265

    8. Coaching Athletes with Disabilities

      • Diane M. Culver, Erin Kraft, Pierre Trudel, Tiago Duarte, Penny Werthner
      Pages 267-286

  5. Challenges of Sports Coaching

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 287-287
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    2. Coaching and Athlete Mental Health

      • Stewart Vella, Sarah Liddle
      Pages 289-304

    3. Coaching Life Skills in Sports People

      • Martin I. Jones
      Pages 305-320

    4. Coaching Cohesive Teams

      • Todd M. Loughead, Matthieu M. Boisvert, Katherine E. Hirsch
      Pages 321-339
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About this book

 This book addresses important topics of coaching in order to better understand what sports coaching is and the challenges that arise when assuming this activity. It provides the reader with useful insights to the field of sports coaching, and discusses topics such as coaching education, areas of intervention, and main challenges. With contributions by experts and well-known authors in the field, this volume presents an up-to-date picture of the scholarship in the coaching field. It introduces key aspects on the future of the science of coaching and provides coach educators, researchers, faculty, and students with new perspectives on topics within the field to help improve their coaching effectiveness. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Life Quality Research Centre, University Institute of Maia, Maia, Portugal

    Rui Resende

  • School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    A. Rui Gomes

About the editors

Rui Resende is professor at the University Institute of Maia in Portugal. He is a Ph.D. from the University of Corunna in Sports Sciences and Master of High-Performance Sports from the University of Porto. He created and was coordinator of the Master's degree in Sports Coaching at the Maia University Institute. He was athlete and volleyball coach in all the competitive ranks, counting in his curriculum the direction of the national team in a juniors European Championship. He was a PE teacher for 23 years exercising numerous management positions at the school. He was president of the National Association of Volleyball Coaches of Portugal. He is editor in-chief of the Journal of Sport Pedagogy & Research and does research in the area of Sport Coaching and PE teachers counting with numerous articles, chapters of books and books edited in this area of research. He is Coach developer from the International Council for Coaching Excellence (ICCE).


Rui Gomes is an Assistant Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Minho, Portugal. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Minho. He has research interests on human adaptation to stress, leadership and team performance, and training life skills and human performance. He leads the research group “Adaptation, Performance and Human Development”, which was created in 2007 (www.ardh.pt). He leads the intervention project “School of Life Skills” (www.e-cv.pt). As a sport psychologist, he consults athletes and their families, coaches, and sport managers.



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