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Youth Positive Development Through Sport: Strategies from Social Project Coaches in Brazil and Spain

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The aim of this study is to describe how coaches act to promote positive and healthy experiences in sport, taking into account the strategies for teaching life skills in the field of social projects with at-risk young people. Our main contribution to this kind of research is the creation of an integrative model with strategies carried out by a total of 11 coaches of projects in Spain and Brazil, their description, analysis, and theoretical discussion with other similar researches. We compared the results with AGT and SDT, theories which are based on counseling programs to coaches, such as MAC, PAPE, and EC, and other programs that aim to promote healthy experiences in sport that also bring advances in the literature. That has enabled the generation of a series of recommendations for coaches, sports psychologists, and educators seeking to foster positive youth development in sports and to transfer these skills to non-sports areas.

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  2. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Luciano Alencastro & Rodrigo de Vargas Araújo

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Marques, M.P., Alencastro, L., de Vargas Araújo, R. (2017). Youth Positive Development Through Sport: Strategies from Social Project Coaches in Brazil and Spain. In: Dell'Aglio, D., Koller, S. (eds) Vulnerable Children and Youth in Brazil . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65033-3_9

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