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Life Span Development: Adolescent Dev.

• Organizations: International

  InterGifted

  InterGifted is an adult community and an adolescent community of nearly 1,000 gifted peers which also offers qualitative giftedness assessments, gifted coaching & mentoring, gifted therapy search & advocacy, workshops/courses, training for helping professionals working with gifted clients, and literature and advocacy on gifted personal development.
  

• Organizations: National

  Student Coaching Services

  Student Coaching Services offers programs for a wide swath of needs, most notably college and career planning. SCS has also grown to include a team of tutors and coaches from certified education backgrounds, all especially talented at bringing the best out of students.

• Printed Materials: Books

  200 Ways to Raise a Boy's Emotional Intelligence: An Indispensible Guide for Parents, Teachers & Other Concerned Caregivers

  This guide by Will Glennon and Jeanne Elium, suggests tools for raising emotionally healthy boys in a culture that preaches stoicism for men. Some of the suggestions revolve around attitudes adults should cultivate in dealing with boys. The book also describes practical things adults can do to enhance boys' mental and emotional health.

  A Fine Young Man: What Parents, Mentors, and Educators Can Do to Shape Adolescent Boys into Exceptional Men

  Michael Gurian the author of "The Wonder of Boys" addresses the challenges of male adolescence. Gurian explores the biological and emotional landscape of male adolescence from cross disciplinary perspectives--culling research from medical science, psychology, anthropology and his own personal observation.

  A Leader’s Guide to The Struggle to Be Strong

  Designed for use with the anthology The Struggle to Be Strong, this leader’s guide explains how to use the stories in the student book to build teens’ resiliency. Activities, exercises, role plays, and questions about the issues in The Struggle to Be Strong help students go deeper into the stories, reflect on them, relate them to their lives, recognize their own potential for resilience, and start building resilience skills.

  A Parent's Guide to Gifted Teens: Living with Intense and Creative Adolescents

  A Parent's Guide to Gifted Teens will help parents understand their gifted adolescent's intensity and excitability and provide tips for nurturing self-discipline, being supportive without being controlling, and for caring for yourself while guiding an intense, creative teen. Click here to read a review of this book.

  A Sense of Self: Listening to Homeschooled Adolescent Girls

  This book examines the lack of a "crisis of confidence" in homeschooled adolescent girls, compared with other girls in more traditional school settings. Several of the girls interviewed for this study are intellectually or artistically gifted.

  Being Me with OCD: How I Learned to Obsess Less and Live My Life

  Part memoir, part self-help for teens, Being Me with OCD tells the story of how obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) dragged the author to rock bottom—and how she found hope, got help, and eventually climbed back to a fuller, happier life.

  Beyond Appearance: A New Look at Adolescent Girls

  This book, written by Norine Johnson, Michael Roberts and Judith Worrell, takes a scientific approach to research the culture of teenage girls. The book discusses gender roles, body image, family/peer relationships, sexual decision making, and experiences that impact and shape teenage girls and society.

  Boost Emotional Intelligence in Students

  Developing emotional intelligence (EQ) in students is essential to preparing them for success in college, careers, and adult life. This practical resource for educators explains what emotional intelligence is and why it’s important for all students. The book lays out detailed yet flexible guidelines for teaching fundamental EQ in an intentional and focused way. The core of the book is a series of thirty hands-on lessons, each focusing on critical EQ concepts and centered around productive and respectful discussion. These research-based lessons are designed to take approximately thirty-five minutes each, but they can easily be adapted to meet the specific needs of a school or group. Digital content includes reproducible forms.

  Bust Your BUTS: Tips for Teens Who Procrastinate

  This book is for teens who struggle with procrastination. There are hundreds of tips in this book to help them get rid of some “buts” that are common to procrastinators: "I have too much to do", "I don’t feel well", "I might do badly", etc. “Bust Your BUTS” helps teens be productive, use time better, and become more successful. This book is a worthy companion to Dr. Joanne Foster‘s popular "Not Now Maybe Later: Helping Children Overcome Procrastination."

  Cultivating the Spirit: How College Can Enhance Students' Inner Lives

  This book is predicated on the belief that the spiritual development of college students has been largely ignored in our colleges and universities, despite the importance of spiritual matters to young people in their quest to lead integrated lives. Thus, while academics are understandably proud of their "outer" accomplishments in the fields of science, medicine, technology, and commerce, colleges and universities have increasingly come to neglect the student's "inner" development--the sphere of values and beliefs, emotional maturity, spirituality, and self-understanding.

  Do Gifted Children Need Special Help?

  In this 45 minute DVD video, James Webb, Ph.D. describes the traits, common behaviors and challenges for gifted children from preschool through adolescence. As they enter school, gifted children are often criticized for their characteristics. Dr. Webb discusses ways to help and nurture gifted children as they grow.

  Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed-Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students

  Named as a 2001 Notable Book in Education by the American School Board Journal, this book by Denise Clark Pope offers a highly revealing - and troubling - view of today's high school students and the ways they pursue high grades and success. Pope, a veteran teacher and curriculum expert, follows five motivated and successful students through a school year, closely shadowing them and engaging them in lengthy reflections on their school experiences.

  Enhancing and Practicing Executive Function Skills with Children from Infancy to Adolescence

  Each chapter of Enhancing and Practicing Executive Function Skills contains activities suitable for a different age groups. This book may be read in its entirety (which includes the introduction and references) or in discrete sections geared to specific age groups.

  Fighting Invisible Tigers: A Stress Management Guide for Teens

  Now in its fourth edition, the revised and updated edition teaches teens proven techniques and stress management skills to face the rigors of growing up. Packed with useful information on how stress affects physical and emotional health, readers will learn: smart approaches to handle decision-making; easy steps toward greater assertiveness; relaxation and mindfulness exercises to focus their minds; time management skills to avoid feeling pressured; how to avoid online drama; positive self-talk techniques; and more! Click here to read a review of an older edition of this book.

  From Worrier to Warrior: A Guide to Conquering Your Fears

  A companion guide to Make Your Worrier a Warrior (for parents), this book is designed to teach students how to conquer the Worry Monster by using several easy-to-follow strategies to overcome worry and fear. From Worrier to Warrior teaches readers how to create a “toolbox” of ways to combat fear and anxiety, and conquer the Worry Monster at any time.
  

  Get Off My Brain: A Survival Guide for Lazy Students (Bored, Frustrated and Otherwise Sick of School)

  A humorous and irreverent guide to how "lazy" (i.e. "bored, frustrated, and otherwise sick of school") students can survive the tedium of school, and maybe even have fun doing it. A guide for teens who are bored and frustrated at school, and need motivational skills.

  Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me & Cheryl to the Mall: A Parent's Guide to the New Teenager

  Despite the best efforts of parents, today's adolescents frequently drink, experiment with drugs and are sexually active. According to the Anthony E. Wolf, however, it is still important to have rules even though a teenager may break them. He clearly has a feel for both the angst of young people who must deal with an evermore complex world and the difficulties parents face when a cooperative loving child morphs into a teenager who lies, talks back and avoids parental company.

  Gifted Adolescents (The Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education)

  Written by Paula Olszewski-Kubilius, Ph.D., this book covers topics dealing with gifted adolescents, such as: talent development during adolescence; critical issues for gifted adolescents; and, implications for educational practice and parenting.

  Helping Boys Succeed in School: A Practical Guide for Parents and Teachers

  This book, written by Terry W. Neu, Ph.D., Rich Weinfeld, combine field-tested strategies and advice with case studies of boys across the nation to give smart young boys and their parents a strong guide for ensuring boys' success in school and the future.

  High IQ Kids: Collected Insights, Information, and Personal Stories from the Experts

  Profoundly gifted kids often get the least help in school. It’s assumed they’re smart enough to succeed on their own, plus teachers (and parents) feel out of their depth with these unique kids. A blend of personal stories and practical strategies, scholarly articles and entertaining essays from a community of voices—parents, educators, authors, researchers, and other experts—this book addresses the joys and challenges of raising and teaching, living with and understanding exceptionally gifted kids of all ages.

  Homeschooling: The Teen Years

  This book is a complete guide to successfully homeschooling 13 to 18 year olds, the years when many homeschooling parents start to question or abandon their efforts. It's a precarious time, with challenging academics, pressing social issues and the prospect of college looming. This guide calms parents' teen-time jitters and offers hope to those turning to homeschooling when their child is about to enter high school. With "how we did it" testimonials from other parents throughout the book, the author offers sage advice.

  How Rude! Teenager's Guide to Good Manners, Proper Behavior, & Not Grossing People Out

  This is a great book about manners for any and every occasion. Most books on manners are droll do-this-do-that books, but this one is hilarious and still gets the point across. Some of the topics covered in this book are: how to "cope with cliques, handle friendship problems, be a host with the most (and a guest with the best), offer someone your seat, fight fair, answer invitations, deal with rude adults, respond to bigoted remarks, write a letter addressed properly for any occasion, survive a formal dinner..." and much more.

  How to Keep Your Teenager Out of Trouble and What to Do If You Can't

  Thoughtful, clear-eyed, comprehensive, and refreshingly free of jargon, this book helps parents identify whether their teens are exhibiting typical behavior, such as locking themselves in their room for hours, or are exhibiting real danger signs, such as being secretive, despondent, or constantly angry.
  A clinical psychologist who's spent more than two decades bringing families back from the brink, author Dr. Neil I. Bernstein knows how to help parents and teens successfully navigate these difficult and trying years. The focus, above all else, is effective communication.

  How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success

  This book provides advice on how to refrain from "overparenting." Author Julie Lythcott-Haims, Dean of Freshmen and Undergraduate Advising for more than a decade at Stanford University, presents a convincing vision of overprotected, overparented, overscheduled kids. After presenting the problem in detail (through interviews with college admissions officers, educators, parents, and others), she offers a number of viable solutions. This book provides parents the backup needed to make essential changes. The goal of parenting should be to raise autonomous adults who are self-reliant.

  If I’m So Smart, Why Aren’t the Answers Easy?

  Based on surveys with more than 5,000 gifted young adults, this book sheds light on the day-to-day experiences of those growing up gifted. In their own enlightening words, teens share their experiences with giftedness, including friendships and fitting in with peers, school struggles and successes, and worries about the future.

  I'm Not Mad, I Just Hate You!: A New Understanding of Mother-Daughter Conflict - Suriviving and Thriving During Your Daughter's Teenage Years

  Authors Roni Cohen-Sandler and Michelle Silver say that although the teen years can be a tumultuous time for girls and their mothers, don't despair. Strong feelings and conflict, if approached correctly, can actually lead to a deeper mutual understanding and a more satisfying relationship.

  Inspiring Middle School Minds: Gifted, Creative, and Challenging
  

  In this book, Dr. Judy Willis, a neurologist and teacher, explains the inner workings of the adolescent brain. She uses the findings of brain research to explain how parents and teachers can help students’ motivation and memory, bypassing the “filters” that adolescents often use to block their learning and triggering untapped inspiration.

  Kingore Observation Inventory

  The Kingore Observation Inventory (KOI) has been successfully implemented to identify gifted and talented behaviors in students for over 10 years in almost every state in America and several other countries, including Australia, Canada, and Mexico. It is celebrated for its ability to identify gifted potentials in minority students and students from poverty who are frequently difficult to identify through standardized tests. It is valued by educators for its effectiveness and efficiency. This process helps teachers immediately initiate appropriate differentiation in the classroom for students whose learning responses exceed the expectations of the core curriculum. An easy-to-use assessment and differentiation process, the KOI enables educators to enrich the learning environment for all children while identifying gifted and talented students through seven categories of observable behavior.

  Leaving to Learn

  Leaving to Learn is designed to help you deeply understand the real reasons kids drop out and the essential conditions for productive learning that today's adolescents require. The authors then make a argument: in order to retain students through to graduation, schools must offer experiences where students do some of their learning outside of school.

  Make Your Worrier a Warrior: A Guide to Conquering Your Child's Fears

  A companion guide to From Worrier to Warrior: A Guide to Conquering Your Fears, this book offers parents the opportunity to help their children or teens do the most courageous thing they will ever have to do: conquer their Worry Monster. Make Your Worrier a Warrior provides useful and comforting methods that parents can use to help their children create an anxiety-reducing “toolbox” to carry with them wherever they go. In building this foundation for their children, parents might even find that these strategies will work just as effectively to manage their own anxieties.

  Models of Counseling Gifted Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults

  Sal Mendaglio brings together a group of contributing authors who share in detail their approaches to counseling clients who are gifted and talented. This book is designed to help interested professionals, as well as those in preparation programs, conduct effective counseling techniques with highly able clients.

  More Than Moody: Recognizing and Treating Adolescent Depression

  In this book, Dr. Koplewicz uses his experience as a clinician and researcher to help parents distinguish between normal teenage angst and actual depression, a serious psychiatric illness. He combines prescriptive advice and compelling stories to show parents the warning signs, risk factors, and key symptoms that distinguish this behavior from depression, an under-treated problem that can have serious long-term consequences, and that can even be life-threatening.

  Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls

  This book by Rachel Simmons, begins with the premise that girls are socialized to be sweet with a double bind: they must value friendships; but they must not express the anger that might destroy them. Lacking cultural permission to acknowledge conflict, girls develop what the author calls "a hidden culture of silent and indirect aggression." Simons, who visited 30 schools and talked to 300 girls, presents clear-cut strategies for parents, teachers, and girls who resist them.

  Off the Charts: Asynchrony and the Gifted Child

  The editors of this book brought together 19 essays by renowned gifted education specialists to explore the effects of asynchronous development on gifted children and adults. It contains sections on Asynchrony and the Individual, Asynchrony and the Family, Asynchrony and Learning and chapters describe the nature of asynchrony, methods of dealing with the challenges of asynchrony, and recommendations for adapting education in a variety of settings.

  Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self

  The topics covered in this book by Sara Shandler, include parental expectations, racial relations, and faith and eating disorders. Shandler also gives practical insight for parents who may find it hard to relate to their teenage daughters. Ranging from problems with body image and self-mutilation to difficult relationships with parents and other family members, to intense academic pressures, the book includes entries from dozens of girls across the country.

  Parenting Successful Children

  The fast pace of technology, family breakups and other changes in today's evolving world make parenting more difficult. Learn more than two dozen strategies to set successful limits, avoid power struggles, minimize sibling rivalry and promote self-esteem in this video from James Webb, Ph.D.

  Parenting Teens With Love & Logic: Preparing Adolescents for Responsible Adulthood

  When kids hit their teen years, parenting takes on a whole new dimension. As they struggle toward independence and autonomy, some dicey issues emerge. The real world you want them to be ready for can make you shudder - kids today face life-and-death decisions long before they're on their own. So what do you do? Hover over them so they won't get hurt? Drill them so they'll do the right thing? According to Jim Fay and Foster Cline, hovering and drilling won't prepare teens for the real world. Because they learn responsibility like they learn everything else: through practice.

  Parents' Guide to Raising a Gifted Child

  James Alvino details a practical, informative primer for raising and educating our gifted children from preschool to adolescence. Strategies are provided for determining whether a child is gifted as well as ways to nurture a child's gifts and talents, and explains how gifted children can become bored, socially aggressive, and even underachieving if not appropriately challenged.

  Quiet Kids: Help Your Introverted Child Succeed in an Extroverted World

  This book is designed to provide parents with a blueprint for understanding the nature of introversion. Quiet Kids provides specific strategies to teach children how to thrive in a world that may not understand them. Presented in an easy-to-read, conversational style, this book uses real-world examples and stories from introverts and parents to show parents and educators how to help children develop resiliency and enhance the positive qualities of being an introvert. Click here to read a review of this book.

  Recognizing Gifted Potential: Planned Experiences with the KOI

  Planned experiences have proven particularly responsive to under-represented populations and enable more children of diversity and lower SES to demonstrate gifted potential. Planned experiences are high-level, open-ended activities designed to elicit and diagnose gifted behaviors. Districts have requested this set of activities that grade-level teachers complete with every student to provide equal opportunities for advanced behaviors to emerge.

  Restoring the Teenage Soul: Nurturing Sound Hearts and Minds in a Confused Culture

  This book examines some of the pressures that are placed on today's teens. It give parents information on how to keep communication open between themselves and their teen.

  Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls

  Mary Pihper explains why more American adolescent girls are prone to depression, eating disorders, addictions, and suicide attempts than ever before. Dr. Pipher challenges the reader to look at what our culture does to teenage girls.

  Speak Up and Get Along!: Learn the Mighty Might, Thought Chop, and More Tools to Make Friends, Stop Teasing, and Feel Good About Yourself

  What if every kid had a handy toolbox of ways to get along with others? That’s just what this book is: a collection of 21 concrete strategies kids can pull out and use to express themselves, build relationships, end arguments and fights, halt bullying, and beat unhappy feelings. Like the Mighty Might, which takes all the fun out of teasing. And the Thought Chop, which helps kids resist self-defeating thoughts. And the Squeaky Wheel, a type of persistence that gets results. And the Coin Toss, a simple way to resolve small conflicts. This revised and updated second edition incorporates electronic communication, cyberbullying, and social media with age-appropriate guidelines and stories. A note to adults includes up-to-date research on and recommendations for social skills and bullying.

  Suicide Among Gifted Children and Adolescents (2nd ed.): Understanding the Suicidal Mind

  This book explores the phenomenon of suicide among students with gifts and talents. It provides the reader with a coherent picture of what suicidal behavior is; clarifies what is known and what is unknown about it; shares two major theories of suicide with explanatory power; and offers an emerging model of the suicidal behavior of students with gifts and talents.

  Take Control of Asperger's Syndrome: The Official Strategy Guide for Teens With Asperger's Syndrome and Nonverbal Learning Disorder

  This book by Janet Price and Jennifer Engel Fisher is a unique handbook for kids and teens on living successful lives with these disorders by taking control of their strengths to overcome their weaknesses. Drawing on their experiences as parents and teachers of students with Asperger's syndrome (AS) and Nonverbal Learning Disorder (NLD), the authors provide tips on understanding the disorders, living with the symptoms, succeeding in school, completing homework, talking to others about strengths and needs, making friends and socializing, and using technology to connect with other kids and teens with these disorders.

  Talented Teenagers: The Roots of Success & Failure

  The result of an extensive five-year study, this pioneering book examines a group of gifted teenagers in an effort to understand the loss of motivation and diminution of talent that takes place during this troublesome period. Click here to read a review of this book.

  Teach Your Children Well

  This book aims to dispel the myth that good grades, high test scores, and college acceptances should define the parenting endgame. This book discusses the value of internal satisfaction and growth, and takes a long-term approach to parenting strategies and success.
  

  Teen Proofing: Fostering Responsible Decision Making in Your Teenager

  Teen-Proofing tackles the challenges of raising a teenager. Rosemond lays out a perfectly sound and logical case for recognizing the realities of the teen-parent relationship, forming the foundation, and parenting with the "Long Rope Principle."

  Teenagers With ADD: A Parents' Guide

  Chris Zeigler Dendy presents practical information that will help parents in their day to day struggle to deal with the changing world of an adolescent with ADHD. Dendy illustrates these points with factual material helpful to both parents and teachers.

  The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens

  Written by Sean Covery for ages 13 and up, this book, which is based on his father's bestselling "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", applies the same principles to teens. To keep it fun, Covey filled this book with cartoons, clever ideas, great quotes and incredible stories about real teens from all over the world.

  The Blessing of a B Minus

  In the book titled, The Blessing of a B Minus, author Dr. Wendy Mogel helps parents navigate the teenage years, when a child’s sense of entitlement and independence grows, the pressure to compete skyrockets, and communication becomes fraught with obstacles. She emphasizes empathy and guidance over micromanaging teens’ lives and overreacting to missteps. Mogel reveals that emotional outbursts, rudeness, rule-breaking, staying up late, and other worrisome teen behaviors are in fact normal and necessary steps in psychological growth and character development to be met with thoughtful care, not anxiety.
  

  The Development of Giftedness and Talent Across the Life Span

  Renowned developmental psychologists and experts in gifted education come together to explore giftedness from early childhood through the elder years. Focusing on the practical implications of emerging theoretical perspectives and empirical findings, contributors examine prediction and measurement, diversity issues, and psychosocial factors as they relate to developing talent in different domains.

  The Drama of the Gifted Child - The Search for the True Self

  Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided thousands of readers with an answer - and has helped them to apply it to their own lives.

  The Friendship Hotline: How to Make 'Em, How to Keep 'Em

  The Friendship Hotline discusses having a best friend, being friends with the opposite sex, making friends online, and more with a fun friendship test to help girls find out what kind of pal they are, and friendship projects like charity work and joining a sports team. An introduction by a psychologist specializing in adolescence rounds out this teen-friendly guide.

  The Gifted Teen Survival Guide: Smart, Sharp, and Ready for (Almost) Anything (Revised & Updated 4th Edition)

  This one-of-a-kind book is full of sage advice to help gifted teens understand themselves, relate well with others, and reach their potential in life. Based on surveys of nearly 1,400 gifted teens, this updated classic (2011) is the ultimate guide to thriving in a world that doesn’t always support or understand high ability. Full of fresh illustrations, surprising facts, cutting-edge research, revealing quizzes and survey results, step-by-step strategies, inspiring teen quotes and stories, and insightful expert essays, the guide gives readers the tools they need to appreciate their giftedness as an asset and use it to make the most of who they are. Click here to read a review of this book.

  The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon

  With the first two editions of this landmark work, Dr. David Elkind called our attention to the dangers of exposing children to overwhelming pressures - pressures that can lead to a wide range of childhood and teenage crises. Taking a detailed, up-to-the-minute look at the world of today's children and teens in terms of the Internet, classroom culture, school violence, movies, television, and a growing societal incivility, Dr. Elkind shows a whole new generation of parents where hurrying occurs, and why and what we can do about it.

  The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids

  In this book, journalist Alexandra Robbins delivers a poignant, funny, riveting narrative that explores how our high-stakes educational culture has spiraled out of control. High school isn’t what it used to be. With record numbers of students competing fiercely to get into college, schools are no longer primarily places of learning. They’re dog-eat-dog battlegrounds in which kids must set aside interests and passions in order to strategize over how to game the system. In this increasingly stressful environment, kids aren’t defined by their character or hunger for knowledge, but by often arbitrary scores and statistics.

  The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids

  A practicing psychologist in Marin County, Calif., Madeline Levine counsels troubled teens from affluent families, and finds it paradoxical that wealth, which can open the door to travel and other enriching opportunities, can produce such depressed, anxious, angry and bored teenagers.

  The Roller-Coaster Years: Raising Your Child Through the Maddening Yet Magical Middle-School Years

  In this book, Charlene Giannetti covers many different aspects of pre-adolescence and adolescence by presenting different scenarios which are typical of this age group. Some of the statistics provided are alarming but can be helpful for parents in understanding the scope of adolescent problems. Strategies are provided on how to steer your middle school child in the right direction.

  The Smart Teens’ Guide to Living with Intensity

  This book by Lisa Rivero is written for pre-teens and teens who love to learn, although they might not love school. How these teens can understand their intensity, manage perfectionism and self-talk, understand their parents better, and take charge of their education are all covered topics. When these students open up the possibilities of how to learn both in and outside of school, they can live life more fully, intensely and creatively. This is an excellent companion book to A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Teens, written by the same author but for parents of gifted adolescents.
  

  The Struggle to Be Strong

  The teens who relate their stories in this book have had more than their share of troubles, but they also have the resiliency needed to move forward. In thirty first-person narratives, teen writers tell about overcoming obstacles in their lives, including new stories about social media and gender identity.

  The Teenager's Guide to School Outside the Box

  This practical, inspiring book explores the world of alternative learning, giving teens the knowledge and tools they need to make good choices. While not a directory of programs, instead Rebecca Greene introduces and describes a world of possibilities, from study abroad to internships, apprenticeships, networking, job shadowing, service learning, university coursework, and independent study.

  Understanding the Gifted Adolescent: Educational, Developmental, and Multicultural Issues

  This book by Marlene Bireley and Judy Genshaft is from the Education and Psychology of the Gifted Series published by Teacher College Press.

  Unmasking Sexual Con Games Leaders Guide

  Unmasking Sexual Con Games includes ten lesson plans for a teen relationship curriculum that discusses emotional grooming, sexual harassment, dating violence, and the role of the media, drugs and alcohol as well as how to develop healthy physical, emotional, and sexual boundaries.
  

  Walking on the Boundaries of Change: Poems of Transition

  Mostly free verse poems deal with a variety of social issues relevant to today's adolescents; such as: falling in love, friendship, peer pressure, gangs, violence, family relationships etc. The poems seem to speak from the perspective of young people in transition, as they face coming of age situations and emotions.

  What Teens Need to Succeed: Proven, Practical Ways to Shape Your Own Future
  

  This book inspires and empowers teens to build their own assets. It invites readers to identify the assets they already have and the ones they need, clearly describes the 40 assets identified as most essential, then gives hundreds of suggestions teens can use to develop the assets.

  When Nothing Matters Anymore: A Survival Guide for Depressed Teens
  

  Handling the topic of teen depression, this author tells about treatment options, presents the facts about therapy, explains the differences between various types of helping professionals (psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, physicians, counselors, etc.), discusses medications and more.

  Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4-14

  Written by Chip Wood, this is a guide for anyone working or living with children ages 4-14. Written for teachers and parents, it offers clear and concise descriptions of children's development. A comprehensive, "user-friendly" reference that helps translate knowledge of child development into schooling that helps all children succeed. Yardsticks includes charts summarizing physical, social, language, and cognitive growth patterns, suggestions for curricular areas, thematic units, and favorite books for different ages.

  You’re Smarter Than You Think: A Kid’s Guide to Multiple Intelligences (Revised and Updated Edition)

  Written by Dr. Thomas Armstrong, an award-winning expert on the topic of Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences, this book introduces the theory, explains the different types of intelligences (like Word Smart, Self Smart, Body Smart), and helps kids identify their own learning strengths and use their special skills at school, at home, and in life. As kids read the book, they stop asking “How smart am I?” and start asking “How am I smart?” Resources describe related books, software, games, and organizations. This revised and updated edition includes information on a newly researched ninth intelligence, Life Smart—thinking about and asking questions about life, the universe, and spirituality.

• Printed Materials: Online Documents

  Suicide among gifted adolescents: How to prevent it

  This article outlines the risk factors and vulnerabilities of gifted students and suggests ways parents and educators can work to prevent such tragedies.

• Printed Materials: Periodicals/Reports & Studies

  FACES Periodical

  Geared toward nine to fourteen year olds, FACES encourages young readers to build their critical thinking skills as they learn to look at other cultures - and their own - in new perspectives. Photographs, maps, time lines, activities, and contests all add interest as children roam the earth in their reading, one theme at a time.

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  Renzulli Creativity Programs: Pathways to Excellence in Innovation

  The major goal of this program, designed for students aged 13 to 17, is to teach participants advanced learning skills and how to apply them in creative and investigative ways. The program is designed to promote enthusiasm, a passion for learning, and high levels of engagement in students’ selected areas of interest. Students solve real life problems related to their academic strength areas, personal interests, learning style, and preferred modes of expression. Participants also develop important executive function skills such as time management, task commitment, goal orientation, team work, self-regulation skills, and a strong work ethic.

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  Is My Child Gifted? If So, What Can I Expect?

  In this 45-minute video presentation on a VHS tape, Dr. James Webb describes the most common characteristics of gifted children and shows how some of these traits can actually result in underachievement, power struggles and failure to be recognized as bright.

• Websites & Other Media: Informational

  Developing Capable Young People

  This powerful training program developed by H. Stephen Glenn prepares adults who work with young people at developing the three perceptions and four skills which determine how effectively they'll deal with life.

  Helping Adolescents Adjust to Giftedness

  This article provides strategies on helping adolescent students adjust to giftedness.

  Motivation: Helping your child through early adolescence

  This article link takes users to a publication on the U.S. Department of Education website, part of a series entitled "My child's academic success." The article is broken into two sections: contributors to low motivation and tips for encouraging motivation. Although not written specifically for the gifted population, this article is applicable and should be useful for parents of highly intelligent young people.

  Piaget's Stage Theory of Development

  This theory of cognitive development from Piaget has had a tremendous influence on all modern developmental psychologists. After observing a number of children, he posed that children progress through a series of four stages (described on this website's page) and that they all do so in the same order.

  Recurring Themes in Career Counseling of Gifted and Talented Students

  This article explores the challenges that gifted students may face with career development.

  Social Thinking

  The term social thinking encompasses many treatment programs described as "teaching social thinking and related social skills." These strategies share common traits: How their own social minds work - why they react and respond the way they do, The behaviors that make others feel good and bad, How these behaviors are affecting their own emotions, responses to and relationships with others across different social contexts.

  Stress busters for the gifted adolescent

  This article by Rita Richardson gives some insight on how parents, teachers, and counselors can reduce stress for gifted adolescents.