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This new edition features a wealth of practical examples with teacher applications and new textbook elements designed to make learning easier. The textbook includes four sections - promotion of lifelong health and fitness, promotion of social skills for life, promotion of self-concept and cognitive skills and promotion of motor skills for life. The chapters within the book have also been revised to provide a textbook format which can be used by lecturers, including objectives, examples, keypoints, review questions, questionnaires, summaries, key terms and case studies, making this a valuable teaching aid. As a result of reading this book, physical education teachers and coaches will be prepared to understand and apply psychological strategies for the benefit of their students.

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Jarmo Liukkonen is Professor of Sport Pedagogy in the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland and Deputy Head of the Department of Sport Sciences, in charge of research and further education (education of doctoral students). Yves Vanden Auweele, PhD, is professor of psychology at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. Since 1980 he has taught psychology to physical education and psychology students. He is the Belgian co-ordinator of the European Masters Program for Exercise and Sport Psychology. Beatrix Vereijken, PhD, is Professor and Head of Department of Human Movement Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

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