Child Development Through Sports

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-01-03
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

A guidebook for adults involved in children's sports! Child Development Through Sports is a commonsense guide for anyone involved in children's sports, presenting thoughtful analysis with an emphasis on maximizing the development of a child's social, emotional, physical, and intellectual capabilities through sports. Written by Dr. James H. Humphrey, who has been involved in children's sports at every level for nearly 60 years, the book stresses the potential contribution sports participation can make to a child's development and the negative impact it can have if programs are not conducted in an appropriate manner. Child Development Through Sports focuses primarily on the risks and benefits of sports participation for children ages 5-12. This valuable book addresses health and stress as developmental factors, how to identify and develop motor skills, the positive and negative effects of competition, and an overview of the more pressing issues of children's sports, including supervision, injuries, benefits, and interest. The book is largely based on extensive surveys and interviews with proponents and critics of children's sports, including parents, professional athletes, coaches, school personnel, and children themselves. Among the topics Child Development Through Sports addresses are: the age at which children should begin playing organized sports which sports are best for children how many sports a child should play--and how often how to judge a good sports program and much more! Child Development Through Sports is an essential resource for parents, teachers, counselors, coaches, and makes a valuable supplemental text for courses in child development and sports management.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Jane E. Clark
Preface ix
An Overview of Child Development
1(14)
General Characteristics of Five- to Twelve-Year-Old Children
1(2)
Forms of Development
3(1)
A Concept of Total Child Development
4(3)
Meeting the Needs of Children
7(1)
Helping Children Understand Their Own Development
8(7)
Health As a Factor in Child Development
15(18)
The Meaning of Health and Related Terms
15(5)
The Health Triangle
20(13)
Stress As a Factor in Child Development
33(16)
Children and Stress
33(2)
The Meaning of Stress
35(1)
The Stress Concept
36(1)
Home Stress
36(2)
School Stress
38(11)
An Overview of Children's Sports
49(16)
Historical Background
50(2)
Important Aspects of Children's Sports
52(13)
Objectives of Children's Sports
65(8)
Physical Objectives
65(3)
Social Objectives
68(1)
Emotional Objectives
69(3)
Intellectual Objectives
72(1)
Physical Development
73(12)
Physical Needs
73(4)
Guidelines for Physical Development
77(2)
Evaluating Contributions of Sports to Physical Development
79(4)
Physical Activity Yield
83(2)
Social Development
85(14)
Social Needs
87(3)
Guidelines for Social Development Through Sports
90(3)
Possibilities for Social Development Through Sports
93(1)
Evaluating Contributions of Sports to Social Development
94(5)
Emotional Development
99(16)
Factors Concerning Emotional Development
100(4)
Emotional Needs
104(3)
Guidelines for Emotional Development Through Sports
107(2)
Opportunities for Emotional Development Through Sports
109(1)
Evaluating Contributions of Sports to Emotional Development
110(5)
Intellectual Development
115(18)
Intellectual Needs
115(4)
Guidelines for Intellectual Development Through Sports
119(1)
Opportunities for Intellectual Development Through Sports
120(13)
Notes 133(4)
Index 137

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