Evaluating Behavioral Skills Training to Teach Safer Tackling Skills to Youth Football Players

Concussion rates and head injuries for football players have been on the rise and there is a need for further research in football to increase skills and decrease injuries. Behavioral skills training has been proven to be effective in teaching a wide variety of skills but has yet to be studied in th...

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Main Author:	Tai, Sharayah
Format:	Others
Published:	Scholar Commons 2016
Subjects:	applied behavior analysis athletic performance behavioral skills training coaching football tackling Sports Safety Skills Social and Behavioral Sciences
Online Access:	http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6410 http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7606&context=etd

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spelling	ndltd-USF-oai-scholarcommons.usf.edu-etd-76062017-08-22T05:13:14Z Evaluating Behavioral Skills Training to Teach Safer Tackling Skills to Youth Football Players Tai, Sharayah Concussion rates and head injuries for football players have been on the rise and there is a need for further research in football to increase skills and decrease injuries. Behavioral skills training has been proven to be effective in teaching a wide variety of skills but has yet to be studied in the sports setting. We evaluated behavioral skills training to teach safer tackling techniques among six participants from a local Pop Warner football team. Results show safer tackling techniques increased substantially during practice and generalized to games among all six participants. 2016-03-22T07:00:00Z text application/pdf http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6410 http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7606&context=etd default Graduate Theses and Dissertations Scholar Commons applied behavior analysis athletic performance behavioral skills training coaching football tackling Sports Safety Skills Social and Behavioral Sciences
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description	Concussion rates and head injuries for football players have been on the rise and there is a need for further research in football to increase skills and decrease injuries. Behavioral skills training has been proven to be effective in teaching a wide variety of skills but has yet to be studied in the sports setting. We evaluated behavioral skills training to teach safer tackling techniques among six participants from a local Pop Warner football team. Results show safer tackling techniques increased substantially during practice and generalized to games among all six participants.
author	Tai, Sharayah
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title	Evaluating Behavioral Skills Training to Teach Safer Tackling Skills to Youth Football Players
title_short	Evaluating Behavioral Skills Training to Teach Safer Tackling Skills to Youth Football Players
title_full	Evaluating Behavioral Skills Training to Teach Safer Tackling Skills to Youth Football Players
title_fullStr	Evaluating Behavioral Skills Training to Teach Safer Tackling Skills to Youth Football Players
title_full_unstemmed	Evaluating Behavioral Skills Training to Teach Safer Tackling Skills to Youth Football Players
title_sort	evaluating behavioral skills training to teach safer tackling skills to youth football players
publisher	Scholar Commons
publishDate	2016
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Evaluating Behavioral Skills Training to Teach Safer Tackling Skills to Youth Football Players

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