Supporting Spiritual Giftedness
Discusses identifying and supporting spiritually gifted children and adults, defining spirituality as connection and transcendence. It describes traits like heightened empathy, wisdom, and sensitivity, gives examples and guidance for parents and teachers to nurture stillness, creative outlets and service, and includes references and a child’s poem.
Counseling Gifted Adults – A Case Study
This case study explores how giftedness affects adults’ emotional, social and occupational lives. Using Susan’s therapy, it highlights common issues—sensitivity, existential depression, perfectionism, multipotentiality, and relationship difficulties—and recommends validation, coping strategies, peer connections, and therapeutic support.
An Interview with Jean Sunde Peterson: About Social and Emotional Needs of the Gifted
An interview with Jean Sunde Peterson about social and emotional needs of gifted students. She discusses common concerns—bullying, isolation, perfectionism, sensitivity—and emphasizes the importance of developmental guidance, compassionate counseling, family support, and school-based psychoeducational opportunities to help gifted children and teens develop resilience and identity.
Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration: Some implications for teachers of gifted students
This article explains Dabrowski’s theory of positive disintegration (TPD), its components—overexcitabilities, developmental potential, dynamisms—and implications for gifted education. It argues TPD focuses on personality and moral development, views intense emotions as catalysts for growth, and distinguishes Dabrowskian potential from conventional definitions of giftedness.
An Interview with Roland S. Persson: The Talent of Being Inconvenient
In this interview Roland Persson explains why academically gifted individuals are often labeled inconvenient in schools and workplaces, arguing they threaten authority or self‑esteem. He outlines societal roles (nerd, hero, martyr), workplace challenges, and how power dynamics shape treatment.
Managing His Image: The Challenge Facing a Gifted Male
This article examines how gifted adolescent males may underachieve to maintain a social image. Through examples it shows how peer culture, masculine norms, and fear of vulnerability can lead bright boys to avoid academic recognition. It suggests educator, counselor and mentor strategies to support healthier identities and achievement.
Social and Emotional Issues Faced by Gifted Girls in Elementary and Secondary School
This review examines social and emotional challenges faced by gifted girls and women, including external barriers such as parental and teacher attitudes and stereotypes; internal barriers like loss of self-confidence, perfectionism, role-related choices, and social isolation across the lifespan.
9 Important Topics about the Social and Emotional Needs of the Gifted (An Interview)
An interview explores social and emotional needs of gifted students, highlighting emotional intensity, the importance of peer groups and self-definition, differences by gender and development, challenges of highly gifted learners, and roles of teachers, counselors, parents and grandparents in supporting healthy growth.
Tips of Helping Gifted, Highly Sensitive Teens & Kids Cope with Trauma
Practical guidance for supporting highly sensitive or gifted children who experience direct or vicarious trauma. Explains common trauma responses, coping and containment strategies, breathing techniques, soothing activities, signs indicating need for professional help, and ways to involve children constructively in recovery and emotional processing.
Helping Adolescents Adjust to Giftedness
Discusses social-emotional challenges and coping strategies of gifted adolescents (ages 11–15), including issues like impostor feelings, perfectionism, reduced risk-taking, competing expectations, impatience, and premature identity formation. Summarizes student-suggested coping strategies and notes influences such as age, sex, and participation in gifted programs.