Health and Sports Psychology are applied and growing fields within the discipline of psychology. They share a common goal of assisting individuals, groups, and high performing teams to optimise their health, functioning and performance. In this unit you will be introduced to the theory and research behind the skills and interventions that are commonly implemented with clients in applied health (e.g. the promotion of health behaviours, applied behaviour change, stress and coping) and sports settings (e.g. motivation and goal setting, recovery and burnout, sports injury rehabilitation). Consistent with the scientist-practitioner approach, you will apply behaviour change principles to the development and evaluation of an intervention for a personal health behaviour or habit. You will use your oral communication skills to present the results of this evaluation, and your written communication skills to discuss an important topic within health and sports psychology to a wider non-academic audience.

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

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Students indicated that the assessment feedback was sometimes unclear or vague.

To achieve clarity regarding assessment feedback, the lecturer will provide a general feedback video so students can contextualise their individual feedback.

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Students enrolled in the Sports and Exercise Science course who were completing this unit reported that the content was directed mostly at psychology students.

To ensure the relevance of the content in this unit is made clearer to the sports and exercise science students, the lecturer will include more examples of how the theory and content relates to real-world sports science scenarios.