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RESOURCES FOR SPORT COACHES

CCSPA offers practical, evidence-based resources to help sport coaches support both their own and their athletes’ mental performance, wellbeing, and development at every level of sport.

Coaches play a central role in shaping not only athletic performance, but also confidence, resilience, and team culture. Today’s athletes face increasing performance pressure, public scrutiny, injury stress, and mental health challenges—all of which can impact consistency and development.
 

CCSPA provides evidence-based resources to help coaches better understand the mental side of performance, communicate more effectively with athletes, and know when and how to involve qualified mental performance and mental health professionals.
 

Whether you’re coaching youth, high school, collegiate, or professional athletes, these resources are designed to be practical, ethical, and immediately applicable.
 

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How Can Sport Psychology Services Help Coaches?
Communication & Feedback Strategies

Sport Psychology professionals can help coaches learn:

  • Language that enhances learning and confidence under pressure

  • Providing feedback after mistakes, losses, or poor performances

  • Balancing accountability with psychological safety

Team Culture & Leadership Development

Sport Psychology professionals can help coaches learn:

  • Building trust, accountability, and cohesion

  • Developing athlete leaders and captains

  • Managing team conflict that impact performance

Managing Pressure, Anxiety, & Confidence

Sport Psychology professionals can help coaches learn:

  • To recognize signs of performance anxiety and mental overload

  • In-practice and in-competition mental skills coaches can reinforce

  • Supporting athletes during slumps without over-coaching

Referring to Professionals for Help

Sport Psychology professionals can help coaches learn:

  • Red flags that suggest an athlete may need mental health support

  • The difference between mental coaching and mental health therapy

  • How to involve mental performance or mental health professionals appropriately

Seeking Self-Help

Sport Psychology professionals can help coaches learn:

  • Signs coaches may need their own mental health support

  • How to manage work-life balance

  • How to develop healthy relationships with co-workers and staff

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