About This Course
This is a flexibleÌýpart-time, level 7Ìý±è´Ç²õ³Ù²µ°ù²¹»å³Ü²¹³Ù±ðÌýshort course deliveredÌýonline.
Why is it that some people are more prone to performance slumps than others? Or, why is it that performance levels may fluctuate across time for no obvious reason? This module explores how personality, psychological resources, emotions, and cognitions influence our ability to perform under pressure.Ìý
Who is this Short Course suitable for?
Our learners have included people from across the UK, and more widely from across the globe. This short course is part of ourÌýMSc Performance Psychology (distance learning), and our alumni include:
- Professional sport coaches and instructors: Rugby, Cricket, Gaelic Football, and Endurance Running Coaches
- UK Coaching Team Members
- Elite Athletes: Professionals in football, gaelic football,Ìýcricket and rugby players, Golfers,
- Performance Directors for Professional Rugby Union Teams
- Opera Performers
- Professional Musicians
- Business Leaders
- Senior management from organisations such as MasterCard and Facebook
- RAF Helicopter Rear Crew
- Air traffic controllers
- Police Officers
- General Practitioners and Anaesthetists
- NHS Managers
Why study this course?
The main objective of this course is to highlight the important role that individual differences play in the way we respond to and perform under pressure. As humans, we all have certain unique pathways to failure under pressure and understanding those individual pathways and intervening at the individual level, will go some way to alleviating poor performances.ÌýÌý
How long does this course take to complete?
This short course is delivered over a 12-week period. However, you will have access to all lecture material at the start of the course which will enable you to go as fast or as slow as your personal circumstances dictate.Ìý
Assessment
The assessment is set at the end of week 12 and consists of an individualised intervention where you will be presented with a case study containing assessment of behaviours under pressure, personality, and other psychological profiles.ÌýÌý
The word count for the assessment is up to 2,000 Words.ÌýÌý
Technical RequirementsÌý
This is an online course delivered via Blackboard Ultra. Students must have access to a stable internet connection, IT and up-to-date computer and software, a microphone and headphones or speakers.
Tutor
Dr Stuart BeattieÌý
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Stuart is a Reader in Performance Psychology, director of the MSc in Performance Psychology (distance Learning), HCPC Registered Sport Psychologist, and a member of the Institute for the Psychology of Elite Performance (IPEP).Ìý
His research interests include Mental Toughness, Resilience, and Performance Psychology in General.Ìý
Stuart worked as a sport psychologist for British Gymnastics for five years and has been involved with resilience projects for Outlook Expeditions and the Youth Justice Service.ÌýÌý
Current PhD supervision projects include -examining Resilience, Mental Toughness, and Triadic Relationship projects with Manchester City Football club, as well as supervising PhD candidates within the NHS.ÌýÌý
As part of the MSc Performance Psychology (distance learning), Stuart also provides supervisory support to students across the domains of Opera, RAF, Business, and Sport Coaching
Course Content
What will you study on this course?
The content will be based around aspects of:Ìý
- personalityÌý
- psychological skillsÌý
- cognition'sÌý
- emotional and behavioural regulationÌý
- the training environmentÌý
- mental toughnessÌý
- mentally tough behaviour in training and competitionÌý
- resilienceÌý
- performance. Ìý
This short course will help you explore direct and interactive relationships between personality, psychological resources, emotions, cognitions upon preparation and performing under pressure. Using information gathered from a variety of sources (self-report questionnaire data, observational data, performance data, and interview data) you will design a bespoke intervention for an individual that will help them to perform at a more consistent level across time. Ìý
Learning outcomes will assess your ability to analyse critical information via a triangulation of methods (performance data, observational data, and questionnaire data) that will allow you to make an informed judgement about an individual's ability to perform under pressure.Ìý
You will critically assess and evaluate a client’s psychological profile in relation to personality, mental toughness, mentally tough behaviour, cognitions, self-regulation, and psychological skills and show how this might influence performing under pressure. Ìý
Finally, you will demonstrate your ability to design a research driven intervention that will minimise the likelihood of impaired performance under pressure.Ìý
Learning Units
- Week 1: Introduction to module and assessment overviewÌý
- Week 2: Introduction to Mental ToughnessÌý
- Week 3: Mentally Tough BehaviourÌý
- Week 4: Development of Mental Toughness 1Ìý
- Week 5: Development of Mental Toughness 2Ìý
- Week 6: Live seminar with course lecturer (no lectures)Ìý
- Week 7: Personality and Mental ToughnessÌý
- Week 8: Mental Toughness InterventionsÌý
- Week 9: Training EnvironmentsÌý
- Week 10: Coping and Mental ToughnessÌý
- Week 11: Personality, Pressure Training, and module OverviewÌý
- Week 12: Live seminar with course lecturer (no lectures)Ìý
Course Cost
Entry Requirements
Candidates will typically require at least a 2.ii honours degree. We also encourage applications from those with non-graduate or alternative professional qualifications and from those who can demonstrate at least 3 years relevant work experience within a high-performance environment (e.g. as an athlete, coach, professional musician, business or finance executive or within a broad range of other professional roles).
Application
How to Apply
Please make sure you read and follow the step-by-step application guide as this will specify which sections of the application form are compulsory for the type of course you want to apply for and save you time.
Please prepare the following information (in a Word document):
- Current employment details;
- Years of experience, and employment history (where relevant)
- Name of staff member and organisation that have approved your funding for this module.
This will speed up the process of completing the application form.
To apply for this course, you need to create an account in ourÌý
You will need access to the email address you specify while creating your account to confirm it.
After creating an account, you will see a homepage with several tabs:
- Personal
- Programme
- Info
- Contact
- Education
- Employment
- LanguageÌý
- Finance
You need to complete all sections before submitting your application.
When a section is complete, a ‘tick’ symbol will appear below it.
- Click on ‘Non-graduating applications / Stand alone Modules’, then select ‘Non-graduating postgraduate’.
- ÌýIn the next section, select Non-Graduating Taught Modules in Sport Health and Excercise Science (NGGT/SHES) Click Save and Continue.
- ÌýOn the next page, the default for the first question is Full Time. You need to change this to ‘Part time’:
- You now need to input the module code.ÌýIndividual Performance Psychology: the code isÌýJXH-4104. This section must be completed for your application to be processed.
- You also need to state the start date. Please make your selection, then click ‘Save and Continue’.
- IMPORTANT: You do not need to write a personal statement to apply for this course. Instead, please upload the document including employment, experience and education information that you have created prior to starting the application that contains the name of your current employer, the number of years of experience you have, and your highest qualification to date. Click Save and continue.
You only need to enter the details of your highest qualification to date, e.g. if you have a postgraduate qualification, please only only include this.
You will be asked for evidence of the qualification. Please either upload a copy of your qualification if it's easily accessible, or upload the Word document again (that you prepared earlier).
details not required as you've already prepared this
Please scroll to the bottom of the page and click on ‘I have no employment history’ (as you have already provided this in your Word document).
If you areÌýself-funding,Ìýplease provide all details as appropriate.