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Events and Conferences
June 29 to July 3, 2018, Daegu, South Korea
The 8th meeting of the Asian–South Pacific Association of Sport Psychology (ASPASP) will be held at Keimyung University, Daegu, South Korea. See http://aspasp2018.org for more information.
July 4–7, 2018, Dublin, Ireland
The 23rd annual congress of the European College of Sport Science (ECSS) will be hosted by the University College Dublin and Ulster University. See http://www.ecss-congress.eu/2018/ for further details.
August 9–12, 2018, San Francisco, CA, USA
The 126th annual convention of the American Psychological Association (APA) will take place in San Francisco, CA, USA. See http://www.apa.org/convention/proposals.aspx for further details.
September 20–21, 2018, Odense, Denmark
The International Society of Sport Psychology’s (ISSP) Annual International Think-Tank 2018, The Mental Health of Olympic Athletes, will take place in Odense, Denmark. For more details see https://www.issponline.org/annual-think-tank.
October 3–6, 2018, Toronto, ON, Canada
The 33rd annual conference of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) will take place at the Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto, ON, Canada. See http://www.appliedsportpsych.org/annual-conference/ for more details.
November 28–29, 2018, Yorkshire, England
The 2018 British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) conference will be held at the Harrogate Convention Centre, Yorkshire, UK. Visit http://www.basesconference.co.uk/index.html for more details.
December 3–4, 2018, Belfast, Ireland
The British Psychological Society (BPS) Division of Sport and Exercise Psychology annual conference will be held at the Belfast Hilton, Belfast, UK. See https://www.bps.org.uk/events/division-sport-exercise-psychology-annual-conference-2018 for more details.
April 10–13, 2019, Washington, DC, USA
The Society for Behavioral Medicine (SBM) annual meeting and scientific sessions will be held at the Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, USA. See http://www.sbm.org/meetings/ for more information.
June 6–8, 2019, Baltimore, MD, USA
The North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA) annual conference will be held in Baltimore, MD, USA. For more details, see https://www.naspspa.com/future-conferences/.
July 4–7, 2019, Prague, Czech Republic
The 24th annual congress of the European College of Sport Science (ECSS) will be hosted by Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. See http://www.ecss-congress.eu/2019/ for further details.
October 23–26, 2019, Portland, OR, USA
The 34th annual conference of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) will take place at the Hilton Portland, Portland, OR, USA. See http://www.appliedsportpsych.org/events/ for more details.
Books, Websites, Media, New Programs, and Job Opportunities
2018 Human Kinetics Book Releases
Lifestyle Wellness Coaching by James Gavin and Madeleine Mcbrearty. http://www.humankinetics.com/products/all-products/Lifestyle-Wellness-Coaching-3rd-Edition-Ebook.
Assessment in Applied Sport Psychology by Jim Taylor. http://www.humankinetics.com/products/all-products/Assessment-in-Applied-Sport-Psychology.
New e-Books for 2018
Effective Leadership in Adventure Programming Field Handbook, 3rd edition, by Simon Priest and Michael Gass. http://www.humankinetics.com/products/all-products/Effective-Leadership-in-Adventure-Programming-Mini-eBook-3E.
Motor Learning and Development, 2nd edition, by Pamela Haibach-Beach, Greg Reid, and Douglas Collier. http://www.humankinetics.com/products/all-products/Motor-Learning-and-Development-2nd-Edition-eBook.
Ethics in Sport, 3rd edition, by William Morgan. http://www.humankinetics.com/products/all-products/Ethics-in-Sport-3rd-Edition-eBook.
Psychosocial Aspects of Exercise and Sports Science by Robert Weinberg, Daniel Gould, and Ron Woods. http://www.humankinetics.com/products/all-products/Psychosocial-Aspects-ExerSpt-Science-Cust-EbookTexas-State-Univ.
Advances in Sport and Exercise Psychology, 4th edition, by Thelma Horn and Alan Smith. http://www.humankinetics.com/products/all-products/advances-in-sport-and-exercise-psychology-4th-edition-pdf.
Organizational Behavior in Sport Management by Eric MacIntosh and Laura Burton. http://www.humankinetics.com/products/all-products/Organizational-Behavior-in-Sport-Management-Ebook.
Social Media
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Journal Website
Human Kinetics, the premier information provider to the physical activity field, is proud to announce a partnership with Atypon through their Literatum publishing platform, a comprehensive e-publishing platform used by many highly regarded professional and scholarly publishers. Literatum has been continuously developed for more than 20 years, constantly evolving to meet the demands of the scholarly community. Through the Literatum platform, our new Human Kinetics Journals website offers superior technological capabilities and better positions us to actively serve the needs of our authors, editors, library customers, and the scholarly community as a whole. Our partnership with Literatum provides a significant upgrade to our website’s infrastructure and functionality, including advanced search capabilities, DOIs for all articles, extensive usage analytics, social-media tools, superior readability and accessibility, and mobile-optimized sites (no need for a separate app). We encourage you to explore our new site at http://journals.humankinetics.com/.
Webinar Series
The Human Kinetics webinar series offers a number of upcoming and recorded webinars that focus on such topics as leadership, resiliency, and team cohesion. Visit http://www.humankinetics.com/webinars to sign up or view past webinar media.
Free Bundled e-Book Program
Learn more about the free e-book program launched by Human Kinetics: http://www.humankinetics.com/bundlede-book.
Job Opportunities in Sport Psychology
For regular updates on current job vacancies in sport psychology, visit https://careers.appliedsportpsych.org.
Listserve Information
SPORTPSY is an electronic-mail bulletin board on exercise and sport psychology with more than 1,000 members. SPORTPSY can now be found at LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU. To join SPORTPSY, send the following command at the command line:
TELL LISTSERV AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU SUBSCRIBE SPORTPSY [your name] or send a message to listserv@listserv.temple.edu with nothing in the subject heading and only the following in the text: SUB SPORTPSY [your name]. If neither approach works check with your campus e-mail expert or send Michael Sachs a message at MSachs@nimbus.temple.edu.
A Listserv (AAASP-Expsych) dedicated specifically to exercise- and health-related topics also exists. It is open to all members of the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology and is intended for discussions related to exercise- and health-related research and practice. For more information and to subscribe, go to https://list.mail.virginia.edu/mailman/listinfo/aaasp-expsych.
