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Jennifer Harvey Sallin

Jennifer Harvey Sallin is a psychologist specialized in supporting gifted adults in their personal and social development. She is the founding director of InterGifted, where she offers qualitative giftedness assessments, gifted-specific psychology training for therapists and coaches, mentoring for gifted leaders, and a vibrant international community for gifted adults. She has created a holistic model of giftedness which considers all forms of gifted intelligences, and draws special attention in her work to high, exceptional and profound giftedness, as well as to gifted trauma and paths to healing it.
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Jennifer Harvey Sallin

Gifted Adults & Second Childhoods: Revisiting Essential Stages of Development – Part 2

This article examines how Eriksonian psychosocial stages show up across the gifted lifespan—childhood through elder years—highlighting challenges like mistrust, shame, identity confusion, intimacy issues, and the need for generativity, and it recommends gifted-specific therapeutic, educational and community supports to facilitate healing and growth.

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Jennifer Harvey Sallin February 10, 2023