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Positive Psychology Enhances Coaching & Athlete Productivity

November 20, 2014March 10, 2015 Stephen Walker, PhD 0 Comments Achor, athlete, Coach Athletes, Coaching-Education, Gratitude, Great Coaches, Happiness, positive mental attitude, positive-psychology, Shawn Achor

Shawn Achor has been an innovator and key promoter of the principles in Positive Psychology.  As a researcher in this

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Behaviors that Characterize “Bad Coaching”

February 3, 2012February 3, 2012 Stephen Walker, PhD 29 Comments coaching, Coaching-Education, dr alan goldberg, dr. scott martin, motivation, sports-psychology-articles

Editor’s note: This week the local paper did an expose about a local high school wresting coach who was arrested

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Coaching Education: Coachs' Interpersonal Styles Affect Motivation

March 13, 2010 Stephen Walker, PhD 0 Comments athlete choice, athlete motivation, brock university ontario canada, Coaching-Education, dr. philip wilson, dr.-stephen-walker, feeling the coach cares about you, interpersonal styles affect motivation, paige gregson, purpose, structure in practice

Stephen Walker interviews Paige Gregson, a graduate student Brock University completing her masters in sport sciences.

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Mythbusting in High School Sports: Perspectives of Athletes, Coaches and Parents

December 7, 2009 Stephen Walker, PhD 0 Comments Aimee Kimball - UPMC Center for Sports Medicine, and Parents, coaches, Coaching-Education, competition, Dana Voelker - Michigan State University, dr.-stephen-walker, exercise-psychology, health-psychology, Mythbusting in High School Sports, Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, Pennsylvania State Alliance, Perspectives of Athletes, Samantha Monda - West Virginia University, Sarah Compton - Argosy University, sport-psychology-articles, sports-psychology-articles, Why do HS sports

Podium’s Podcast of the Week – An interview with Samantha Monda by Stephen Walker, PhD – CC-AASP Dr. Aimee Kimball,

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Coaching Education Podcast on Youth Football – Featuring Jay Goldstein

August 23, 2009 Stephen Walker, PhD 0 Comments coach, coaching, Coaching-Education, competition, jay goldstein, motivation, nfl, nfl football foundation, play, research, self-esteem, skills acquisition, sport-psychology, sports-psychology, university of maryland, youth football, youth player development

by Stephen Walker, PhD, CC-AASP Jay Goldstein from the University of Maryland – speaks to us about his research sponsored

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Coaches Empowering Athletes … Using an “Athlete-Centered” Approach

June 13, 2009 Michael P. Sheridan PhD 4 Comments Add new tag, coach, coaching, Coaching-Education, coaching-tactics, concentration, De Sousa, Dr. Carol Dweck, Dr. Lynn Kidman, Dr. Michael Sheridan, Journal of Physical Education Recreation and Dance, mental-skills, mental-strength, motivation, Oslin J, research in coaching methods, sports-psychology

Bridging the gap between coaching research and practice By Michael P. Sheridan, Ph.D. What is this article about? The purpose

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"One, Two, Three, Attitude – HaH!" Another lesson in Coaching Education and Youth Sports

May 17, 2009June 17, 2013 Stephen Walker, PhD 1 Comment Add new tag, coach, Coaching-Education, competition, david and goliath, focus, full court press, girls basketball, malcome gladwell, mental-toughness, new yorker magazine, peak-performance, rick pitino, roger craig, rometa craig, self-talk, sport-psychology, sports-psychology, tenacious defense, vivek ranadive', war strategy, youth-sports

Malcom Gladwell writes about youth sports, Rick Pitino, David & Goliath and war strategy in the New Yorker: by Dr.

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The Best of Coaches – Bring out the Best in their Teams – Part 2

April 8, 2009 Stephen Walker, PhD 0 Comments Blake-Griffen, coaching, Coaching-Education, committment, geno-auriemma, mental-conditioning, NCAA-basketball, North-Carolina-Tar-Heels, Oklahoma-Sooners, passion, Roy-Williams, team-work, Tina-Charles, Ty-Lawson, U-Conn-Huskies, Wayne-Ellington

By Dr. Stephen Walker, CC-AASP Last night capped the end of March Madness when the NCAA Basketball Championships were completed. 

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Dr. Stephen Walker talks about: Turning Negatives Into a Positive

March 29, 2009 Stephen Walker, PhD 0 Comments case-study, Coaching-Education, coping-with-adversity, mental-conditioning, mental-training, parents-of-youth-sports-athletes, poor-coaching-practice, positive-coaching, positive-psychology, sport-psychology, turning-negatives-into-positives

by Stephen Walker, PhD, CC-AASP Probably the most enjoyable aspect of working with athletes, coaches, trainers and parents of emerging

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The Best of Coaches – Bring out the Best in their Teams

March 15, 2009 Stephen Walker, PhD 8 Comments chris charmicael, coaching, Coaching-Education, confidence, great coaching, john-wooden, Lance-Armstrong, ncaa basketball tournament, positive-coaching, process-goals, tour-de-france

Here Comes March Madness! The Mens and Womens NCAA Basketball Tournament Today, the brackets for the NCAA Basketball Tournament are

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