Developing resilience in sport

This free course, Developing resilience in sport, explores how the concept of resilience can support athletes on their athletic development journey. Resilience can act as a buffer to protect against the challenges that might be faced by athletes.Within the course you'll be directed to a number of fascinating resources, including research articles to support your learning. While you will see that the majority of the research into resilience in sport has been completed in elite sport, you will reflect that it is a concept that impacts across all levels of sport, in different athletic contexts.This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course E312 Athletic development: a psychological perspective.

• Introduction
• Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• Session1Session 1: Understanding resilience
• Introduction
• 1 Defining resilience
• 2 Resilience in action: resilient athletes
• 3 Resilience in action: resilient coaches
• 4 Investigating team resilience
• 5 Resilience at the extremes of sporting performance
• 6 Resilience in the early stages of the athletic development journey
• 7 Summary of Session 1
• References
• Acknowledgements
• Session2Session 2: Developing resilience
• Introduction
• 1 Building resilience: getting it right
• 2 The role of the environment
• 3 Approaches to building athlete and coach resilience
• 4 Building team resilience
• 5 Developing resilience for the athletic development journey
• 6 Summary of Session 2
• Where next?
• References
• Acknowledgements