Coaching Positive Development

This book focuses on providing a comprehensive understanding about coaching positive youth development. We attempt to present multiple perspectives from researchers across a wide range of coaching contexts, cultures and sport systems.

Throughout the last decades, positive youth development has become a commonly utilised framework as research in non-english speaking countries and within a vast array of cultures, coaching contexts and sport systems has started to grow.

Considering this tendency in positive youth development research, this book aims to provide an in-depth incursion into what we know and need to know concerning coaching positive youth development and positive youth development-focused coach education across multiple contexts/sport systems.

Although there are still many grey areas such as the lack of consensus in providing an operational definition of positive youth development and identifying how positive youth development-focused coach education programs could be framed to foster better outcomes in youth participants, many advances have been made.

These advances reflect how the field has progressed over the last decades and provide novel insight as new problems and research questions emerge.