Psychology and CoachingLaajuus (5 cr)

Intro

Do you want to become the kind of coach who inspires both performance and personal growth? In Psychology and Coaching, you’ll explore how to build motivating environments, develop strong coach–athlete relationships, and support young athletes’ social and emotional development using Positive Youth Development (PYD) principles.

This course gives you practical tools to shape a healthy sport environment and collaborate effectively with key people like parents and other coaches. Through real-world examples, interactive tasks, and reflection, you'll deepen your understanding of what great coaching truly means—and how you can become the kind of coach who makes a lasting impact.

Learning objectives

After having completed this course of attained an equivalent competence level, the student:
- Knows how to create motivating learning environment.
- Knows how to build genuine and healthy coach-athlete relationship/partnership.
- Understands the role of coaches and other stakeholders (E.g. parents) in shaping the sport environment and knows how to interact effectively with them.
- Knows how to utilize positive youth development principles (PYD) to contribute children and youth psycho-social development.

Implementation methods, demonstration and Work&Study

Descriptions of implementation methods can be found in Haaga-Helia's website: https://www.haaga-helia.fi/en/implementation-types

Assessment criteria - grade 1

When the implementation type of the course is CONTACT, ONLINE or BLENDED it is required that the student is present during those teaching hours that are marked in the study schedule. If you are absent more than 25 %, your grade will be lowered by one. If you are absent more than 50 %, the course is failed.

The student is able to:
Demonstrate an understanding of how to create healthy motivational climate by using motivational theories, positive youth development principles and coach-athlete relationship model.

Assessment criteria - grade 3

The student is able to:
Examine how to create healthy motivational climate by using motivational theories, positive youth development principles and coach-athlete relationship model. Relate the new knowledge to previous understanding.

Assessment criteria - grade 5

The student is able to:
Discuss how to create healthy motivational climate by applying motivational theories, utilizing positive youth development principles and building successful Coach athlete relationship. Relate the new knowledge to previous understanding, combine information to reconstruct future actions based on the new knowledge.