This article by Paula Olszewski-Kubilius and Marilynn Kulieke examines the literature on the personality dimensions of gifted adolescents. It also presents a study they conducted with participants from the Midwest Talent Search summer program. The purposes of the research were to provide a detailed, comprehensive, gender-specific profile of gifted adolescents, to address the issue of psychological maturity with a sample of gifted students by comparing them to older students, and to determine to what extent gifted female and male adolescents dif ...
This article highlights the importance of acceleration as an option for gifted learners. The author attempts to dispel the myth that grade skipping is socially detrimental to the student, and offers resources to determine when and if a grade skip may be necessary. ...
This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by P. Susan Jackson, the founder of the Daimon Institute for the Highly Gifted. She is a psychotherapist, educational consultant and researcher who specializes in the overall development of gifted students. The following is a synthesis of information provided to parents from an online seminar on social/emotional development of the profoundly gifted child. ...
This Tips for Parents article, from a seminar hosted by Dan Holt, provides information on humor and the gifted child, focusing on how gifted students have complex ideas and cartoons can be a way of helping them communicate those ideas.
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This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Maureen Neihart, in which she provides tips on how to help gifted students build strong social networks. In addition, Neihart explains that highly gifted children have problems relating to and interacting with their peers because of a lack of similar interests and intelligence. ...
This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Tracy Cross, who discusses concepts involving gifted adolescents and depression. He also provides a number of resources for further information. ...
This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Thomas Greenspon, who provides parents a view of how students view their own giftedness. ...
This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Sharon Lind, who offers suggestions on living with introverts, providing for them in the classroom and at home, and changes that adults can make to help introverts. It includes more than 20 straightforward tips. ...
This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Sharon Lind, who shows parents how to develop a "personal survival kit" with which they will begin to meet their own needs in an emotionally intense family and enable themselves to better meet the needs of others. ...
This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Jim Delisle, who offers parenting advice on overcoming guilt due to judgement errors, based on three decades of working with gifted children and their parents. ...
James Webb offers suggestions to parents on how to obtain support for their family and their gifted child. Tips for when to look for and how to find a psychologist that is a right fit are offered. Webb also gives suggestions on what to tell the child about the therapy. ...
This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Michelle Muratori, who takes a look at the unique challenges parents face when balancing the needs of raising a gifted student with other family needs. ...
This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Edward Amend in which worry and stress as related to gifted children were discussed. The author explains that some worry is good and is a motivator, but that it is important to distinguish between a normal amount of worry and an amount that will cause problems for the child. ...
This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Edward Amend, who gives important, straight-to-the-point tips for easing, and sometimes avoiding, your child's worrisome episodes. Amend states that strengthening the child's ability to handle stress and frustration is a gradual process and naturally requires the child to experience frustration along the way. ...
Suicidal ideation assessment has been employed as an early screening method for identifying adolescents who are at risk for engaging in suicidal behaviors. This study examined the factorial representation for suicidal ideation among an academically gifted population. ...
Jerald Grobman described a group of exceptionally gifted adolescents and young adults who had become underachievers because of their inability to resolve certain conflicts that accompanied each stage of their development. ...
This study uses the methods and procedures of psychological autopsy to portray the life of an academically gifted college student who completed suicide. The study is unique in that it follows the subject across his 21 years of life, highlighting relevant milestones and significant stages and events. A comprehensive view of the life and death of a gifted student is
offered through both researchers' and parents' perspectives, along with multiple theoretical explanations, including a developmental explanation. ...
This article examines the nature and extent of depressive disorders in highly gifted adolescents based on current literature and data gathered from a phenomenological study, focus groups, and clinical records. These findings raise questions about the efficacy of quantitative research instruments to determine actual cases of depressive disorder in this subgroup, as well as current research estimates of depression in the highly gifted population. ...
This article by James Webb discusses existential depression among gifted young people. He examines what it is, how it may manifest in a gifted child, and what a parent can do to help their child through these difficult feelings. He points out that gifted young people are more likely to have this type of depression because of their more highly developed sensitivities. ...
This article discusses how gifted children's sensitivity to events happening in their society and surrounding can often be isolating and frightening. This article outlines steps such as talking with your children and encouraging philanthropic values in order to help normalizes these feelings. ...
This article by Ellen Fiedler presents the theoretical perspective for shedding light on psychosocial correlates of gifts based on Dabrowski. According to Dabrowski, the theory has two key facets: levels of emotional development and overexcitabilities or areas of intensity that individuals may possess. Each of these two facets are explained in the article. Also addressed in the article are theories (Manaster and Powell and Festinger) concerning social-emotional issues for gifted students which are different from the general population. ...
In this article, Jill Burruss and Lisa Kaenzig define introversion and lists many of the characteristics of introverts. Suggestions are made on ways teachers can help introverts in the classroom and how families can help introverts at home. ...
This article recognizes that the holidays are a time of joy and celebration, reunion and renewal. However, there are aspects of the season that can create stress and frustration. This is a list of links which offer advice for those experiencing anxiety about the upcoming holidays. ...
Students attending a state-supported residential academy for academically gifted adolescents completed the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory for Adolescents upon entrance. The same students completed a postadministration of this same inventory at the end of their 2nd year at the school. Results are reported in the article. ...
This article by Maureen Neihart reviews the empirical research regarding the connection between being gifted and psychological well-being. The research reviewed suggests that being gifted in and of itself does not affect a child's psychological well-being. However, the author points out that there are some correlations between adult psychological disorders and high IQ and creativeness, which the author addresses in a lengthy discussion. There is also a discussion of the factors involved in creating (or avoiding) psychological distress among gif ...
BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This book review covers the content in both the adult and student editions of Coping for Capable Kids, by authors LeoNora M. Cohen, Ph.D. and Erica Frydenberg, Ph.D. The authors define giftedness and discuss its aspects at length. ...
BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - Regardless of whether or not a reader shares all of the views presented by these authors, he or she will undoubtedly come away from this book feeling considerably more informed about the central issues of gifted secondary education and more capable of serving the needs of gifted adolescents. ...
BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - A review of Carol S. Dweck's book titled, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.
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BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults addresses the development issues and implications of misunderstanding gifted young people and adults. The authors James, Edward, Nadia, Jean, Paul, and Richard emphasize the need for greater awareness of how giftedness (in the context of environmental factors) impacts the diagnostic process. In addition, the book provides ideas on appropriate interventions that will hopefully improve the quality of life for gifted individuals and those who i ...
BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - The Gifted Kids’ Survival Guide: For Ages 10 and Under by Judy Galbraith is a book that can easily be read from cover to cover in one sitting. It is also a resource parents can lead their children to time and again to help them learn to handle difficult situations ...
BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - The Resilience Factor: Seven Essential Skills for Overcoming Life’s Inevitable Obstacles by authors Karen Reivich and Andrew Shatte is not a traditional motivational book, but does offer ways to overcome adversity to become a happy, well-adjusted person. ...
An interview (Q&A format) with Dr. Esther Sinclair, a Licensed Educational Psychologist and Director of the Educational Consultation & Advocacy Services at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. ...
Laura Vanderkam interviews Tracy Cross for the Gifted Exchange Blog ...