In the preface to the first edition of the Handbook of
Sport Psychology (published by Macmillan), Singer,
Murphey, and Tennant (1993) contemplated on issues
relating to its structure, topical coverage, authorship, and
geographic representation. They found it particularly
challenging to distinguish among sport psychology,
motor behavior, motor learning, motor control, and
motor development while considering the contents and
issues to be included in the seminal edition. Their
expressed desire was also to provide coverage of research
on applied issues, mainly mental interventions, which
they claimed must be scientifically/evidenced based. The
overall focus was aimed at providing the state of the art
research in the relatively new but growing domain, while
also acknowledging and highlighting conceptual and
methodological issues and limitations to be addressed to
facilitate further advancement. The first edition of the
Handbook of Sport Psychology consisted of 44 chapters
embedded within 11 sections (see Table 0.1).