Development coaches must understand that the youth psychological development affects sport skill acquisition and that the sport skill acquisition process results in psychological changes in sports learning and performance.
These two articles which I am posting here are written by accomplished researchers in youth participation in sports which will guide coaches to work effectively with the young athletes in their program.
Youth Sport has the potential to accomplish three important objectives in children's development.
First, sports programs can provide youth with opportunities to be physically active, which in turn lead to improved physical health.
Second, youth sports programs have been considered important to youth's psychosocial development, providing opportunities to learn important life skills such as cooperation, discipline, leadership, and self-control.
Third, youth sports programs are critical for the learning of motor skills; these motor skills serve as a foundation for recreational adult sports participants as well as future national sports stars.
Currently, youth sports programs are not producing outstanding results in any of these three objective areas.
For example, child obesity rates in developed nations are high, while problem behaviors such as drug use and delinquency are on the rise among youth.
Further, attrition rates from youth sports programs are extremely high during adolescence, with an estimated one-third of all participants between 10 and 17 years of age withdrawing from the sports programs every year, leading sport psychology researchers to identify dropout as an area of concern.
In the following article, the researchers in the National Research Institute Of Medicine recommended eight main features in facilitating positive youth development through sport.
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