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Developing resilience in sport
Developing resilience in sport

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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Nichola Kentzer.

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Text

Session 1

‘What is resilience?’ reading: © The Open University

‘Recent developments in team resilience’ reading: ‘Recent developments in team resilience research in elite sport’, Current Opinion in Psychology, Elsevier

Session 2

‘Building resilience’ reading: © The Open University.

‘Planned disruptions and REBT’ reading: © The Open University.

‘Developing team resilience’ reading: Morgan, P.B.C., Fletcher, D. & Sarkar, M. (2019). ‘Developing team resilience: A season-long study of psychosocial enablers and strategies in a high-level sports team’. Psychology of Sport and Exercise. Elsevier

Images

Introduction

Course image: © Delly Carr/Getty Images

Session 1

Introduction image: © Ruslan Sitarchuk/Dreamstime.com

Section 1 image: © Vitezslav Vylicil/shutterstock.com

Figure 1: Adapted from Fletcher, A., and Sarker, M. (2012) ‘A grounded theory of psychological resilience in Olympic champions’ Vol 13, Issue 5. Psychology of Sport Exercise. 2012 Elsevier

Section 4 image: © Belish/Shutterstock

Section 5 image: photobac/123RF

Section 6 image: © Shestock/Getty

Session 2

Introduction image: © mrgao/iStock

Section 2 image: © AlessandroZocc/iStock

Figure 1: adapted from Fletcher and Sarker 2016

Figure 2: © BelievePerform

Section 4 image: © Patrik Giardino/Getty

Section 5 image: © FRANCK FIFE/Contributor/Getty

Audio-visual

Session 1

‘Introduction to resilience’ video: Courtesy of Resilient Option, www.stressfree.com

‘The Merthyr mermaid’ video: © BBC

‘Coach resilience (Part 1)’ video: © The Open University. Female swimmer in pool: WK-Production/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus

‘Developing resilience in sport’ audio: Courtesy of BelievePerform.com

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Session 2

‘Athlete wellbeing and engagement’ video: Swimming Australia, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/deed.en

‘Coach resilience (Part 2)’ video: © The Open University.

‘The importance of team resilience’ audio: Courtesy of Believeperform.com

‘Building children’s resilience’ video: used with the permission of Home-Start Central Bedfordshire.

Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.

Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.

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