Creating Optimal Environments for Talent Development

Henriksen, Kristoffer; Stambulova, Natalia

doi:10.4324/9781315668017-19

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“…From an ecological perspective, career/talent development can be seen as the progressive mutual accommodation that takes place between an aspiring athlete and a whole environment. The authors of the holistic ecological approach (HEA) in talent development (Henriksen et al, 2010;Henriksen & Stambulova, 2017) propose a shift in research attention from the individual athletes to the athletic talent development environments (ATDEs) and suggests analysing the ATDEs using two complimentary working models.…”

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Career development and transitions of athletes: the International Society of Sport Psychology Position Stand Revisited

Stambulova

Ryba

Henriksen

2020

International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

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This paper is a comprehensive update of the International Society of Sport Psychology (ISSP) Position Stand on career development and transitions of athletes issued a decade ago (Stambulova, Alfermann, Statler, & Côté, 2009, ISSP Position Stand: Career development and transitions of athletes. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 7, 395-412.). A need for updating the 2009 Position Stand has grown out of the increasing inconsistency between its popularity and high citation, on the one hand, and its dated content that inadequately reflects the current status of athlete career research and assistance, on the other. During the last decade, sport psychology career scholars worked on structuring the athlete career knowledge and consolidating it into the athlete career (sport psychology) discourse (ACD). The aims of this paper are to: (1) update the decade-long evolution and describe the current structure of the ACD, (2) introduce recent trends in career development and transition research, (3) discuss emerging trends in career assistance, and (4) summarise in a set of postulates the current status and future challenges of the ACD.

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Section: Ecological Career/talent Development Researchmentioning

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Career development and transitions of athletes: the International Society of Sport Psychology Position Stand Revisited

Stambulova

Ryba

Henriksen

2020

International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

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“…This shift is visible in the theories that underpin our interventions. Today our applied work takes a starting point in acceptance and mindfulness-based approaches (Henriksen, Hansen & Larsen, 2019), subscribes to a humanistic-existential view of the athlete (Nesti, 2004), and involves a key focus on the athletes' environment (Henriksen & Stambulova, 2017).…”

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“…Common to these theories is the idea that most phenomena must be considered in systems; that is, organised wholes which are so complex that they cannot be disassembled into parts without losing their central quality, which is their wholeness (Bateson, 1973;Lewin, 1939). The holistic ecological approach (Henriksen & Stambulova, 2017) emphasises that humans are embedded in their environment, stresses that development must be understood as a mutual accommodation between the athletes and their context, and depicts the environment as consisting of a series of nested layers that go from the micro-to the macro-environment. Recent research on successful athletic talent development environments (see Henriksen & Stambulova, 2017 for summary) has demonstrated the potential applied significance of adopting a holistic ecological approach that shifts focus from the individual athletes to the environment in which they develop.…”

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“…The holistic ecological approach (Henriksen & Stambulova, 2017) emphasises that humans are embedded in their environment, stresses that development must be understood as a mutual accommodation between the athletes and their context, and depicts the environment as consisting of a series of nested layers that go from the micro-to the macro-environment. Recent research on successful athletic talent development environments (see Henriksen & Stambulova, 2017 for summary) has demonstrated the potential applied significance of adopting a holistic ecological approach that shifts focus from the individual athletes to the environment in which they develop. Applied sport psychologists who adopt this perspective recognize that some sporting environments are more successful than others in helping their athletes develop and perform.…”

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Team Denmark’s sport psychology professional philosophy 2.0

Diment¹,

Henriksen²,

Larsen³

2020

SJSEP

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In 2008, Team Denmark established a sport psychology team with the aim to enhance the quality and consistency of applied sport psychology services in Danish sport. The team began their work by creating a professional philosophy (Henriksen, Hansen, & Diment, 2011). Since this publication, the team has worked closely with Danish athletes, coaches and sport federations in consultations, training and competitions, including at numerous World and Europeans Championships as well as several Olympic Games. Lessons learnt on the job, the introduction to new theoretical perspectives, insights from supervision, and formal professional education have resulted in the continual development of the team’s professional philosophy. The purpose of this article is to present a revised version of Team Denmark’s professional philosophy; including: (1) the vision for the team; (2) basic beliefs and values; (3) the psychological theories that interventions are based upon; (4) Team Denmark’s Sports Psychological model which describes the content and focus of the team’s work; and (5) the concrete psychological services that delivered. High quality service requires coherence across all five levels of the philosophy.

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“…The development of elite athletes is increasingly costly, time consuming, and systematic (Baker, Cobley, Schorer, & Wattie, 2017;Bergeron et al, 2015;De Bosscher, De Knop, Van Bottenburg, & Shibli, 2006;Pankhurst & Collins, 2013). Reflecting this, a growing body of research seeks to understand and support talent systems' capacity to develop talents into elite athletes (e.g., Bailey et al, 2010;Côté & Hancock, 2016;De Bosscher et al, 2006;Henriksen & Stambulova, 2017;Weissensteiner, 2017). Within this broad focus, the talent development literature takes particular interest in developmental and training models.…”

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Pupil-athletes’ Learning Dispositions and Their Potential Effects in School Sports-situated Talent Development Programs

Renström

Stenling

2019

JADE

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There is a worldwide increase in efforts to support talents' development towards elite athletes. The focus of the study was the learning processes among athletes that facilitate this development. Drawing on the learning dispositions concept (Carr & Claxton, 2002), the aim was to create knowledge on the prevalence and possible consequences of variability in learning patterns among pupils enrolled in Nationell Idrottsutbildning Fotboll (NIUF)—a highly selective soccer talent development programme within upper secondary schools in Sweden. In-depth semi-structured interviews were carried out with a total of 13 pupils in their first or second year of NIUF. The data analysis benefited from iterative movement between the data and key learning dispositions: resilience, reciprocity, and playfulness. The findings show a variation in the strength of these dispositions between pupils, particularly with regard to the reciprocity and playfulness dispositions. We propose that individuals who display a comparably stronger manifestation of learning dispositions are better equipped to benefit from the learning opportunities of such programmes. This implies that there is a key role for coaches/educators to play in constructing an environment in which participants may 'learn to learn'.

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Creating Optimal Environments for Talent Development

Cited by 88 publications

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Career development and transitions of athletes: the International Society of Sport Psychology Position Stand Revisited

Career development and transitions of athletes: the International Society of Sport Psychology Position Stand Revisited

Team Denmark’s sport psychology professional philosophy 2.0

Pupil-athletes’ Learning Dispositions and Their Potential Effects in School Sports-situated Talent Development Programs

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