Exercise and Sport Psychology Books

There are a plethora of options if you're looking for Exercise and Sport Psychology books. Some of the best-sellers include:

• Foundations of Sport and Exercise Psychology w/ Web Study Guide- 5th Edition by Robert Weinberg and Daniel Gould.

This book contains seven parts:
Part 1 is an introduction to the field, detailing its history, current status, and the various roles of sport and exercise psychologists.
Part 2 focuses on personal factors that affect performance and psychological development in sport, physical education, and exercise settings.
Part 3 concentrates on two major classes of situational factors that influence behavior: competition and cooperation, and feedback and reinforcement.
Part 4 focuses on group interaction and processes.
Part 5 pinpoints how psychological techniques may be used to help people perform more effectively.
Part 6 addresses the various roles psychological factors play in health and exercise.
Part 7 deals with topics of psychological development and well-being that are important to both society and sport and exercise psychology, including children's psychological development through sport participation, aggression in sport, and moral development and good sporting behavior in sport and physical activity contexts.

• Group Dynamics in Exercise and Sport Psychology: Contemporary Themes by Mark R. Beauchamp and Mark A. Eys.

Can a better understanding of group dynamics raise individual and team athletic performance or improve the outcomes of exercise interventions? Much human behavior in sport and exercise and exercise setting is embedded within groups where individuals' cognitions, emotions, and behaviors influence and are influenced by other group members.

• Single-Case Research Methods in Sport and Exercise Psychology by Jamie Barker, Paul McCarthy, Marc Jones, and Aidan Moran.

This is the first book to fully explain single-case research in the context of sport and exercise.
Single-case research is a powerful method for examining change in outcome variables such as behavior, performance and psychological constructs, and for assessing the efficacy of interventions.
Including case studies and examples from across sport and exercise psychology, the book demonstrates the advantages and common pitfalls of single-case research for anybody working in applied or behavioral science in a sport or exercise setting.

• Judgment, Decision-making, and Success in Sport (W-B Series in Sport and Exercise Psychology) by Prof. Dr. Michael Bar-Eli, Prof. Dr. Henning Plessner, and Prof. Dr. Markus Raab.

This is an introduction to the fundamental approaches of Judgment and Decision-Making (JDM) research in psychology and application directly to a variety of JDM problems in sports.
Specific judgment and decision-making problems encountered by athletes, coaches, managers, and referees are considered, and recommendations are made for their effective resolution.
Among the many topics addresses are:

1. the evaluation of athletic performance
2. motivational and emotional judgments
   
3. optimizing judgment processes
4. the decisions of coaches, managers, and referees
5. the prediction of sports results
   

• Sport and Exercise Psychology (Active Learning in Sport) by Joanne Thatcher, Melissa Day, and Rachel Rahman.

This is a comprehensive and accessible text on Exercise and Sport Psychology for students on sport science/ sport and exercise science degrees.

All of these books can be found at Amazon.com