Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Editor’s Note
Preface
Opening Chapter
Chapter 1. Towards a Fully Functioning Humanity
(Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences, Claremont Graduate University, CA, USA)
Individuals and Teams
Chapter 2. Birth Advantages, Social Agents, and Talent Development in Youth Sport
(David J. Hancock and Jean Côté, School of Physical and Health Education, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada and others)
Chapter 3. Training Teams to High Performance: Efficacy and Implications for Practice
(Tripp Driskell and Eduardo Salas, Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida, FL, USA)
Chapter 4. Mental Training for Elite Athletes: Theory, Research and Implications for Practice
(Robert Weinberg, Department of Kinesiology and Health, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA)
Leaders
Chapter 5. Coaching Young Athletes to Positive Development: Implications for Coach Training
(Stewart Vella and Wade Gilbert, Interdisciplinary Educational Research Institute, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Wollongong, Australia and others)
Chapter 6. Coaching High Performance Athletes: Implications for Coach Training
(Gordon A. Bloom, William R. Falcão and Jeffrey G. Caron, Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada and others)
Chapter 7. Leadership in a Team Sport Context: Implications for Coaches
(Harold A. Riemer and Sebastian Harenberg, Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies, University of Regina, Canada)
Chapter 8. Leadership and Positive Human Functioning: A Triphasic Proposal
(A. Rui Gomes, Department of Applied Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Portugal)
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Index
