Section I: Talent Identification1. Talent Identification and Development in Sport: An introduction[Joseph Baker, Stephen Cobley, Jörg Schorer and Nick Wattie]2. Does Talent Exist? Yes![Dean Keith Simonton]3. Does Talent Exist? A re-evaluation of the nature-nurture debate[Paul Ward, Patrick Belling, Erich Petushek and Joyce Ehrlinger]4. Conceptions of Giftedness and Talent [Christiane Fischer-Ontrup and Christian Fischer]5. How Contemporary International Perspectives Have Consolidated a Best-Practice Approach for Identifying and Developing Sporting Talent[Juanita R. Weissensteiner]6. Why Conceptualizations of Talent Matter: Implications for Skill Acquisition and Talent Identification and Development[Nick Wattie and Joseph Baker]7. On the Efficacy of Talent Identification and Talent Development Programmes[Arne Güllich and Stephen Cobley]8. Applied Statistics for Practitioners and Researchers[Dirk Büsch and Urs Granacher]Section II: Talent Development9. Sport Activity in Childhood: Early specialisation and diversification[Paul R. Ford and A. Mark Williams]10. Method in the Madness: Working towards a viable ‘paradigm’ for better understanding and supporting the athlete pathway[Juanita R. Weissensteiner]11. Talent Identification and Development in the Context of "Growing Up"[Robert M. Malina, Sean P. Cumming, Manuel J. Coelho e Silva and António J. Figueiredo]12. Psychological Factors in Developing High Performance Athletes[Anne-Marie Elbe and Johan Wikman]13. Family Influences on Talent Development in Sport[Camilla J. Knight]14. Understanding Environmental and Task Constraints on Talent Development: Analysis of micro-structure of practice and macro-structure of development histories[Keith Davids, Arne Güllich, Richard Shuttleworth and Duarte Araújo]15. Perceptual-Cognitive Training: The next piece of the puzzle[Florian Loffing, Norbert Hagemann and Damian Farrow]16. Windows of Optimal Development[David I. Anderson and Anthony M. Mayo]17. Could Sports Biomechanics Provide the Missing Pieces to the Talent Identification and Development Puzzle?[Paul Stephen Glazier]18. Longitudinal Studies of Athlete Development: Their importance, methods and future considerations[Stephen Cobley and Kevin Till]Section III: Creating Optimal Environments19. Creating Optimal Environments for Talent Development: An Holistic Ecological Approach[Kristoffer Henriksen and Natalia Stambulova]20. On the (Potential) Value of Coaching[Steven B. Rynne, Bob Crudgington, Rebecca K. Dickinson and Clifford J. Mallett]21. Group Cohesion and Athlete Development[Mark Eys, Todd M. Loughead and Michael Godfrey]22. Applied Motor Learning: Optimal environments for successful development[Adam D. Gorman and Ian Renshaw]23. Understanding Dropout in the Athlete Development Process[Carsten Hvid Larsen and Dorothee Alfermann]24. A Smooth Sea Never Made a Skilful Sailor: Optimizing and exploiting the rocky road in talent development [Dave Collins and Áine MacNamara]Section IV: Health and Development Concerns25. Understanding Underrecovery, Overtraining and Burnout in the Developing Athlete[Maximilian Pelka and Michael Kellmann]26. Medical Perspectives on Talent Development in Youth Sports[Tamara John and Cordelia W. Carter]27. Developing Talent While Promoting Positive Youth Development: A balancing act[Jessica Fraser-Thomas, Theresa Beesley, Lauren Dickler, Meghan Harlow, Alexandra Mosher, Cassidy Preston and Lauren Wolman] 28. High Performance Sport and Athlete Health[Srdjan Lemez and Fieke Rongen]29. Issues of Maltreatment in High Performance Athlete Development: Mental toughness as a threat to athlete welfare[Gretchen Kerr and Ashley Stirling]Section V: Emerging Issues30. The Role of Analytics in Assessing Playing Talent[Bill Gerrard]31. Talent Development in Parasport[Joseph Baker, Srdjan Lemez, Andy Van Neutegem and Nick Wattie]32. The Structured RePsychling of Talent: Talent transfer[Tracy Rea and David Lavallee]33. Talent Policies[Eivind Åsrum Skille, Cecilia Stenling and Josef Fahlén]34. Concluding, But Definitely Not Conclusive, Remarks on Talent Identification and Development[Jörg Schorer, Nick Wattie, Steve Cobley and Joseph Baker]
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