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Structuring Rewards for Athletes in Youth Development Programs

May 12, 2009 Stephen Walker, PhD 3 Comments coach, competition, counseling, development of young athletes, focus, mental-conditioning, mental-game, motivation, parents, parents-of-youth-sports-athletes, performance, racing, reward systems for youth athletes, sport-performance, sport-psychologist, sport-psychology, sport-psychology-articles, sport-psychology-techniques, sport-psychology-training, sports, sports-performance, sports-skills, young athlete development, youth sport administration, youth sports programs, youth-sports

By Dr. Haley Perlus Athletes First Why do young athletes participate in sports? This is a simple question with insurmountable

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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