Learning Partnerships, Unit Catalogue 2009/10 |
AS10090: Ethics and safety |
 Credits: |
5 |
| Level: |
Certificate |
| Period: | This unit is available in... |
| Semester 1 at City of Bath College | |
| Semester 1 at Swindon College | |
| Semester 1 at Weston College | |
| Semester 1 at Weymouth College |
| Assessment: |
CW 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites: |
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| Description: | Aims: The ethical issues faced by a coach and exercise specialist when training athletes/clients in a sports/activity environment will be examined. A multidisciplinary approach to the sport science utilised by participants is investigated to ensure not only good but also safe practice. To allow students to assess the role of the coach/leader in child welfare issues (abuse, trainability etc.) in relation to children as sports participants. Learning Outcomes: At the end of this unit students will: * Develop an understanding of emerging issues and pressures experienced by the coach/leaders and athletes/participants * Identify the key issues contributing to ethical and safe practice * Recognise how to plan effective strategies to reduce the onset and severity of illness/injury * Demonstrate they can implement safe and effective practice when working with the athlete/participants. Skills: * Communication; * Application of Number; * Information technology; * Basic Management Skills. Content: * The role of the coach/leader in child welfare, to include child abuse, trainability of children, growth and development * Drugs in sport, including drug testing, physiological and psychological side effects * Safe working practice to include health and safety responsibilities, intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors for injury * Professionalism vs. amateur, funding, media and role model status. * Multidisciplinary approach to Sport Science, to include coach/athlete awareness of Jet Lag, Acclimatisation, Heat and Cold, Altitude * Safe practice within sport and training, to include effective weight training, effective recovery strategies and therapeutic techniques * Pressures of success, under achievement and the impact it has on injury occurrence and return to performance/activity. |