PYC4812
ASSIGNMENT 2 2024
UNIQUE NO.546318
DUE DATE: 12 AUGUST 2024
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PYC4812 Assignment 02
Sport Coaching
The psychology of coaching is fundamentally a group of strategies that are developed to assist
the coaches to increase their ability to influence the behaviour of players efficiently.
You are required to interact with a coach over a period. It can either be a team or individual sport
coach. You must go through various stages of the project which also include reading prescribed
and recommended readings. Thereafter, you are required to compile a report about your
experience with a coach.
The main purpose of this assignment is to introduce you to the working context of a sport
psychologist and the academic literature on sport psychology and coaching.
The final report that you submit for assignment 02 will be the product of your interactions with a
coach and having consulted various recommended readings. In order to assist you to plan and
structure the report, we have suggested below the specific outline of your report. It consists of
five sections with each section reflecting a different stage of your work. You should use the
outline as a checklist when compiling the report.
The assignment will be marked using a rubric which will be posted on myUnisa. The rubric is
designed to reflect each aspect of the instructions and you may easily lose marks for omissions.
So, pay careful attention to the instructions. Marks will also be awarded for attention to technical
aspects (formatting, grammar, referencing) and for creativity.
• The final report – outline
Section A: Initial contact(s) with a coach - one typed page
This section describes your initial contact(s) with a coach, where you form a working
relationship and a conversational context with the coach, in order to collaborate with him/her
in removing obstacles to coaching the team. If possible, you must also spend some time
observing the coach in action (i.e. coaching the team). Please be careful to consider ethical
guidelines in reporting on your project. This section includes the following:
▪ background information about the coach
▪ a description of the contacts - where, when, and so on