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#220 Kevin Smith, Dr Con Burns & Dr Ed Coughlan - Examining a New Approach to Coaching

The Sport Psych Show

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The Importance of Self-Determination Theory in Coaching

Theory of motivation and well-being primarily focuses around the athlete self-determined autonomy so that they have some control over their environment. Coaches may very well be doing some of these elements within their sessions already that are promoting that self-determination theory within their athletes. There's a couple of simple examples like that that coaches perhaps could integrate into their current practices to a better align um the theory to their practice.

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