This category will represent articles that reflect on coaches working with their athletes, how they co-exist with a team, and different techniques that will reveal more successful outcomes for performance. Coaches are also looked at in a holistic view, how they are functioning at both high-performance and youth positions and what their life-work balance entails. Coping strategies, philosophies, and mental skills training is identified and discussed from multiple perspectives.

Injury is looked at from all angles, pre-injury, during the rehabilitation process, and post injury. Discussion on the most useful mental skills training and strategies for successful recovery is presented. Further elaboration using previous research, personal experiences and perspectives from sport psychology consultants, coaches, teammates, and athletic trainers is utilized in identifying successful outcomes.

Techniques can be all encompassing of the interventions, techniques, and recommendations for performance enhancement and metal skills training that are made for all of the following prospects; coaches, teams, individual athletes, and sport psychology consultants. Techniques can be specific to a problem or used to simply enhance the positive development of the previously mentioned perspective learners. Techniques can be facilitated or received by any group or individual.

Teaching mental skills is one of the main objective of sport psychology consultants and can be done the exploration of emotion regulation, self-efficacy, grit, hardiness, or mental toughness to name a few. The goal of mental skills is to enhance the athletes overall ability to preform at their optimal level as well as be able to translate developing sports-related skills to life experiences and growth.

Different types of motivation are discussed. How individuals are motivated, why that is, and how to reach a player to foster this motivation are a few facets explored in these articles. Also discussed is motivation from individual coaches, athletes, or a team perspective.

Group dynamics is a very popular area for sport psychology consultants to work with. The dynamics, cohesion, and characteristics of a successful group are researched in the provided articles. The interventions and techniques necessary to build positive team dynamics and ways to effectively operate within a team are explored.