Online Course
Motivation and Resilience for Athletes
Learn how to navigate setbacks and cultivate resilience

1-1.5 hours

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Carl Bescoby
Course instructor

Dr Carl Bescoby is an injury psychologist working at the intersection of injury, health, wellbeing, and performance.

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Introduction

Sports medicine clinicians are familiar with athletes' psychological and physiological stressors. Having a good understanding of resilience and working to improve resilience can positively impact the athlete. Resilience is a dynamic process involving bouncing back from or even bouncing beyond significant adversity. This course will discuss ways clinicians and coaches can build collective resilience in athletes and team environments.

Aims

This course aims to empower you to build collective resilience and motivation for athletes, healthcare professionals and coaches within the sports environment.

Outline

This course is made up of videos, reading, forum posts and a final quiz. The course content is split into the following sections:

  1. Video
  2. Reading activity
  3. Quiz

Target audience

This course is aimed at Physiotherapy and Physical Therapy clinicians, students and assistants. Other interested professionals such as athletic trainers, occupational therapists, nurses or medical doctors interested in this subject are also invited to participate.

Practicalities

Availability - this course is online and can be completed on your own schedule.

Hours of Learning - No deadlines are applied to this course and it can be started and completed in your own time according to your personal schedule. We expect the required elements to take around 1-1.5 hours depending on your schedule and learning style. Additionally there are many optional resources provided and if you choose to review these the course could take longer to complete.

Types of Activities - Watching videos, reading, a final quiz and participating in an international discussion forum.

Certificates - At the end of the course, when you have completed all of the required elements, you will be able to download a certificate of completion and 1.2 Plus points will be added to your personalised learning dashboard.

Requirements to complete this course

In order to complete this course and receive a course completion certificate plus CEUs/CCUs/CPD points you will need to:

  1. Respect the Plus Community Culture.
  2. Log all the required learning activities as complete (represented by the orange icons!).
  3. Actively and appropriately participate in the course discussions.
  4. Pass a final quiz with a score of 80% or more.
  5. Complete a course evaluation form.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course you will be able to:

  • discuss resilience in individuals and within sports
  • explain how to build greater collective resilience in teams

Instructor financial and non-financial disclosures

No relevant relationships disclosed by instructor.

Accessibility

For special needs or accommodations please contact us with details of how we can meet your needs.