Talent Development: A Guide for Practice and Research Within Sport

By R. Martindale, D. Collins, Jim Daubney. 2005

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The transformation of talented youngsters into senior world-beaters is a topic of interest for practitioners and researchers alike. Unfortunately there is a dearth of research to guide the optimization of this process. Accordingly, this paper offers an overview of key themes apparent in the literature that have relevance to the effective development of talent. The five key generic features that emerge consistently include long-term aims and methods; wide ranging coherent messages and support; emphasis on appropriate development rather than early selection; individualized and ongoing development; and finally, integrated, holistic, and systematic development. In addition to the review, exemplars of current worldwide practice are used to further highlight both the need and direction for further research and more broad education of an effective talent development model.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Social Psychology

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Evaluation of a Mental Toughness Training Program for Youth-Aged Australian Footballers: I. A Quantitative Analysis (2009, background): “Taken together with research that has examined gifted and talented school children and athletes (eg, Cote, 1999 ; Gagne, 2004 ) as well as talent development research (eg, Martindale, Collins, & Daubney, 2005 ), the available evidence suggests that mental toughness is largely caught from the expe”
Coping with Academy-to-First-Team Transitions in Elite English Male Team Sports: The Coaches' Perspective (2010, background): “Further, it supports one model of effective talent development environments [55], which states the need for clear, coherent, wide-reaching messages that should be consistent across both performance and social environments.”
Developmental Paths and Activities of Successful Sport Coaches (2006, background): “CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR STUDYING COACH DEVELOPMENT Development in sport has received considerable research attention in recent years [3,4].”
Coaches' views of mental toughness and how it is built (2011, background): “In addition, extending talent development research (e.g., Gould et al., 2002; Martindale et al., 2005), the”
Three Worlds: new directions in participant development in sport and physical activity (2012, background): “…(Bailey, 2007) by systematically developing all the components of talent so, that individuals have both the ability and capacity for choice to engage in sport and physical activity targeted at either PRE or ERE, or, typically at earlier ages, both (Abbott & Collins, 2004; Martindale et al., 2005).”
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Talent Identification and Development: The Need for Coherence Between Research, System, and Process (2013, background): “In addition, there should be quality relationships between the stakeholders and with the athletes themselves (Martindale et al., 2005).”