Chapter 9 Flashcards
What are developmental assets?
Building blocks for human development
What are external assets?
Comprise support, empowerment, boundaries and expectation
What are internal assets?
Commitment to learning, positive values, social competencies and positive identity
What are the eight desirable youth sport program settings?
Physical and psychological safety. Appropriate structure. Supportive relationships. Opportunities to belong. Positive social norms. Support for efficacy and mattering. Skill building opportunities. Integration of family, school, and community efforts. (continued)
Two categories of Fostering initiative through cognitive development
Relaxed leisure activities(enjoyable min effort), constructive leisure activities (Enjoyable but req sustained effort)
What is initiative?
Core quality of positive physical, psychological, and social development in children.
What are the 5 c’s of positive youth development
Competence, character, Connection, confidence, caring/compassion
If all 5 c’s are demonstrated what occurs?
6th c - Contribution
What is deliberate play?
Play deisgned to maximize inherent enjoyment
What is early specialization?
High amounts of deliberate practice and low amounts of deliberate play
Overemphasis on deliberate pracitce and early specialization may lead to
Over training
Early spec. often has harmful what?
Emotional and psychological development
Specializaiton may lead to
Disapointment and discouragement
Early spec. and increased focus on delib. practice can be
Effective in producing elite performers
Mediational model of global self worth three points
Childrens competence-importance beliefs and social support predict sense of global selft-worth and motivation
Form high self opinion if coaches/parents have high regard
Form low self opinion if coaches/parents have low regard
