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#56 Blaine McKenna - Practical Tips to Help Coaches Teach Players Life Skills

The Sport Psych Show

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The Importance of Life Skills in Sport

The life skills are essentially so if you improve a team's communication in training and games that's a sports skill. Can be goal-setting mental imagery it can be managing money it can be basically any skill you can use within a number of settings. So as a sports psychologist we might talk about mental skills such as confidence, concentration, control as an emotional control, self-regulationso what you're saying is is taking those mental skills and transferring them to other areas of other players life. Yeah that's essentially it that's something I think we can get better at because a lot of our sessions they link so closely to psychological topics but we don't do that.

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