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In this course you will learn the following key areas of Soccer Psychology:
1. Motivational Climate
2. Decision Making Processes
3. Emotional Intelligence
4. Psychology of Injury
5. Resilience in Soccer
6. The Role of the Coach
7. Understanding Personalities
8. Talent Identification
9. Skill Acquisition
10. Leadership and Culture
This Intermediate Certificate in Soccer Psychology & Mental Skills course has been developed with some of the most respected coaches, sports psychologists, mental skill coaches, practitioners and academics working at the elite level.
Delivered by Sarah Murray
In Module One, you will understand & realise how motivational climate impacts the developing player and performance, the two types of climate, and understand how coaches create the climate within their team through and use the TARGET principle to develop task climate.
Delivered by Daniel Dymond
In Module Two, you will gain a foundational understanding of the brain under pressure, various types of decision making & specific processes, insights into the relationship between pressure & reactive decision making, and problematic decision-making processes and methods in order to make better decisions.
Delivered by Thomas Pratl
In Module Three of this course, you will be exposed to the understanding of emotional intelligence in sport, and how to maximise your own coaching influence. Being able to take the information provided in this module and implement it within your own environment and enhance coaching behaviour and practice is a key aspect of this module alongside self-development and action planning for you and your coaching staff.
Delivered by Jorge David Mora Anzola
In Module Four, you will know the importance of multidisciplinary work, understand & increase awareness of the injury process, understand the importance of psychological intervention in each recovery phase, ensure a holistic recovery is performed
Delivered by Dr. Tanja Ecken
In Module Five you will understand the different personal, psychosocial, academic and athletic challenges soccer players work through as they progress to the 1st team, understand how increased psychological pressures affect quality of sleep, rate of injuries and impact performance and why good coping strategies are essential and how to detect maladaptive coping skills.
Delivered by Martin Macháček
In Module Six, you will understand how to train players with greater efficiency, be able to focus on how your energy as a coach can influence the energy of the player, understand how to coach using key psychological skills and be able to highlight the need to be & act as a role model – in all aspects of coaching!
Delivered by Sion Rowlands
In Module Seven, you will have gained a better understanding of personality in the soccer environment, you will understand & focus around 5-Key Coaching Cs – commitment, communication, concentration, control & confidence and you will know how you can apply the 5c’s to your working scenarios & phases.
Delivered by Pedro Assis
In Module Eight, you will understand the definition of talent and what it means, the obstacles & issues arising with talent within sporting environments, finding talented individuals & where to look for it and the importance of observation: identifying the key information required.
Delivered by Jorge David Mora Anzola
In Module Nine, you will understand skill acquisition & the learning aspects, detect talent from a psychological perspective, the implications & techniques for the psychological integration and understand mental toughness.
Delivered by Max Lankheit
In Module Ten, you will know how to understand and assess your team and where it is in its development cycle, evaluate yourself and other leaders regarding their leadership style and how to adjust it to your teams needs, and how to apply systems thinking principles to your organization and how to move your team towards high performance.
The difference between great players and average players can often be seen in their mastery of the mental aspect and dealing with adversity.
The Intermediate Certificate in Soccer Psychology & Mental Skills Training course provides you with more advanced techniques and strategies used at the elite-level of the game that enables you to coach your players and teams to achieve peak mental performance
This course is suitable for:
This course has been designed for beginner to elite level coaches who want the latest research findings, along with the most efficient and proven training methods for soccer specific psychology and mental skills training.
The course is comprised of the following:
25 study hours
Tutor assessed assignment
Certificate of Achievement
The focus of the course is as follows:
Who is this course designed for?
This course has been designed for beginner to elite level coaches who want the latest research findings, most efficient training methods for soccer specific psychology and mental skills training.
How long is the course?
This is a 16-hour course providing a deep understanding and best practices that can be applied to your own team environment to maximise performance and protect the mental well-being of your players.
Is my progress logged through the course?
After each lecture there is a short multiple-choice test designed to cement your learning. You can access your test results at anytime through your course progress area.
Can I stop/pause a presentation part way through?
Yes, the course is completely flexible. You can go back to a module at anytime and continue from where you left off.
Can I take the modules in any order?
No. The course follows a set structure that must be studied in numerical order. You can only access the next module once you have completed the previous module test.
Is there a time limit on the course?
Yes. This course has a 12-month access limit. You can access the course 24/7 within this period.
Will I get a certificate to show that I have passed the course?
Yes, you will receive a pass certificate provided you have attained the minimum pass grade of 75%.
If you have any further questions, please Contact Us.
Accredited by British Virgin Islands Football Association
This online course is fully accredited by the BVIFA & ensures the study hours will contribute to the achievement of a formal accreditation & BVIFA continued professional development.
The course will also be accepted towards the revalidation for the BVIFA-CONCACAF Level D-B courses.
PAYMENT PLAN AVAILABLE
This course has been designed for beginner to elite level coaches who want the latest research findings, most efficient training methods for soccer specific psychology and mental skills training.
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this course is for you!
The demand for sport psychologists & mental skills training specialists with a focus on football science is growing year upon year. Thousands of coaches, students & independent learners with qualifications, coaching badges & sport science degrees, are asking the key question – How do I get a job in football? What’s the next step? Which area of sport science do I want to specialise in? What is the role of sports psychologist?
The bespoke courses developed by ISSPF Faculty members are a way of further exposing sport science students, individuals working within the game & other football science enthusiasts with a thirst to develop further in this area.
ISSPF courses are not only recommended by universities and federations around the world, but they are delivered by some of the leading practitioners in the game which will provide some cutting edge methods and industry overview on dealing with specific aspects of performance coaching and development largely including physical training in a team sport environment. ISSPF are working at accrediting all their courses through academic and footballing institutes in order to provide additional academic currency to the learner.
