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Youth sports in America : the most important issues in youth sports today /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Arthur-Banning, Skye (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2018]
Subjects:
Sports for children > United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Adaptive sports
  • body image and eating disorders
  • Boys in sports
  • Bullying
  • Burnout among child and adolescent athletes
  • Character development
  • Coach training and education
  • College scholarships and recruiting
  • Community recreation programs
  • Competitive balance
  • Concussions
  • Coping with failure
  • Development of youth in mind and body
  • Economic impact of youth sports tournaments
  • Forced exertion
  • Gender identity and inclusion
  • Girls in sports
  • Goal setting for performance enhancement
  • Hazing
  • Healthy competition
  • Low-income minority youth
  • Media coverage and representation
  • Officiating youth sports
  • Parent education
  • Parental pressure
  • Parents in fan and coaching contexts
  • Pay-to-play
  • Performance-enhancing drugs
  • Personal trainers and other consultants
  • Role models
  • Role of play in sports-based youth development
  • Sexual and physical abuse
  • Sexual orientation and inclusion
  • Single sport specialization versus sampling
  • Sports-based youth development (SBYD) movement
  • Substance abuse
  • Travel-club teams
  • Appendix: Popular youth sports in the United States.