Optimal Functioning in the Sports and Performing Arts Environment   [Archived Catalog]
2023-2024 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook
   

APH 5470 - Optimal Functioning in the Sports and Performing Arts Environment


This course provides students with the depth of knowledge and skills needed to assess athletic performance and train athletes to recognize then correct psychological and psychophysiological barriers to optimal functioning. Students will learn to apply the principles of sports psychology to psychophysiological assessments and interventions designed to detect and rectify such problems as incorrect timing and patterns of breathing, muscle acceleration tension relationships, and stress responses having impacts on performance. Students will learn about the experimental analyses elucidating how people behave in the sports environment and ways to use this information to develop performance strategies to enhance motivation, optimize team dynamics, and minimize burnout. 3 credit(s)
Course Length: 15 weeks. No RC required.