Examining expert coaches’ views of parent roles in 10-and-under tennis.

Gould, Daniel; Pierce, Scott; Wright, Emily; Lauer, Larry; Nalepa, Jenny

doi:10.1037/spy0000050

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“…Such practices may also help to protect against the risk of injury which was cited as another barrier by practitioners. With regard to social challenges and more specifically parents, there needs to be more work to help support parents of talented players which could be facilitated through more effective communication between parent and coach to facilitate effective dialogue related to a players' progress (Gould, Pierce, Wright, Lauer, & Nalepa, 2016) and parent education programmes to support the development of 'optimal' sport parenting practices (Thrower, Spray & Harwood, 2017). Coaches and other practitioners are also encouraged to support the implementation of life skills into their coaching curricular in a bid to support wider psychosocial development such and effective communication, self-awareness and accessing social support away from the soccer environment (Pierce, Kendellen, Camire & Gould, 2018).…”

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Practitioner Perspectives on the Barriers Associated With Youth-to-Senior Transition in Elite Youth Soccer Academy Players

Mitchell

Gledhill

Nesti

et al. 2020

International Sport Coaching Journal

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There are concerns surrounding the lack of players making the transition from youth to professional status within English professional soccer. Stakeholders, such as coaches, have been largely overlooked by researchers often focussing on player experiences. The authors aimed to explore soccer practitioner perceptions of the debilitating factors associated with youth-to-senior progression. Practitioners were chosen as they inform the working practices and are the cultural architects of the environment in which players operate. Interviews were conducted with 18 soccer practitioners (male = 17 and female = 1). These included coaches (n = 6), academy managers (n = 8), and staff involved with education and welfare (n = 4). The data were thematically analysed, and four themes were identified (cultural climate, working practices, occupational hazards, and social challenges). The analysis provided a clear picture of the transition landscape faced by players seeking to make the youth-to-senior transition through the eyes of soccer practitioners. The findings present a novel viewpoint to facilitate reflection around their own practice when managing youth-to-senior transitions. Further research is needed to triangulate player experiences and operational aspects of facilitating transitions, which could lead to the creation of best practice guidance.

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Section: Applied Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Practitioner Perspectives on the Barriers Associated With Youth-to-Senior Transition in Elite Youth Soccer Academy Players

Mitchell

Gledhill

Nesti

et al. 2020

International Sport Coaching Journal

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“…Collaborating with coaches through well designed interventions. Research indicates that the interactions parents have with others in youth sport contexts impacts the child's experience (Gould, Pierce, Wright, Lauer, & Nalepa, 2016;Knight & Holt, 2013;Omli & LaVoi, 2011). However, little attention has been given to actually understanding what underpins successful or effective coach-parent or parent-parent relationships (Holt & Knight, 2014).…”

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Advancing the study of parental involvement to optimise the psychosocial development and experiences of young athletes

Harwood

Knight

Thrower

et al. 2019

Psychology of Sport and Exercise

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The purpose of this article is to review and critique the literature in youth sport that specifically relates to parental influence on the experiences and psychosocial development of young athletes. First, we consider the literature examining the extent to which parental involvement in organised youth sport has been associated with psychosocial outcomes in young people. Within this critique, we draw upon what has been learned from the sport-based positive youth development (PYD) and life skills literature. Second, we address conceptual and methodological limitations of existing literature (e.g., homogeneity of samples, oversimplification of parenting in sport, studying parental involvement in isolation) and target key scientific gaps that exist in facilitating our understanding of optimal parental involvement (e.g., raising parental awareness and facilitating opportunities to support psychosocial development, improving coach education to facilitate parent-coach relationships, collaborating with coaches through well designed interventions, working on the "right" assets at the right time). Such gaps represent how parents appear to have been overlooked within the intentional process of psychosocial development. We offer concluding remarks about the future of youth sport in this area and provide specific recommendations to inspire future researchers and practitioners towards the challenge of empowering parents and more fully enabling their potential.

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“…Beyond teaching parents skills to cope with demands, there is an ongoing need to develop and evaluate broader strategies to help parents support their children in sport. A number of suggestions have been provided in various articles regarding the different approaches or strategies that can be used to enhance parental involvement [e.g., 47,33] and many sports organizations have sought to embed strategies, policies, or practices in their clubs and at competitions to address "poor" parental involvement [8]. However, few of these PARENTING IN SPORT strategies or policies are evidence-based or have been evaluated to establish the appropriateness or impact of such behaviors [48].…”

Section: Strategies To Enhance Parental Involvement In Sportmentioning

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Parenting in sport

Knight

Berrow

Harwood

2017

Current Opinion in Psychology

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This paper provides a brief summary and commentary on the growing literature on parenting in sport, with a particular emphasis on literature from the last 2-3 years. Following a brief introduction overviewing the topic area, we firstly focus on the influence of parental involvement on children. Specifically, we examine the range of factors that influence children's perceptions of parental involvement and the consequences of different behaviors. Next we discuss the factors influencing parental involvement, such as the challenges and stressors associated with parenting children in sport and the culture within different sports. Finally, our review focuses upon the strategies developed by parents to facilitate their involvement in their children's sport, as well as the few papers focused upon parent education and support. We conclude by examining the need for further research and examination of support strategies for parents.

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Examining expert coaches’ views of parent roles in 10-and-under tennis.

Cited by 20 publications

References 37 publications

Practitioner Perspectives on the Barriers Associated With Youth-to-Senior Transition in Elite Youth Soccer Academy Players

Practitioner Perspectives on the Barriers Associated With Youth-to-Senior Transition in Elite Youth Soccer Academy Players

Advancing the study of parental involvement to optimise the psychosocial development and experiences of young athletes

Parenting in sport

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