The Essential Guide to Talking with Gifted Teens


Book Description

Like other kids their age, highly capable adolescents experience developmental challenges. They’re forging identity, finding direction, exploring relationships, and learning to resolve conflicts. These are difficult tasks to do alone, no matter how smart one may be. The 70 guided discussions in this book are an affective curriculum for gifted teens. By “just talking” with caring peers and an attentive adult, kids gain self-awareness and self-esteem, learn to manage stress, build social skills and life skills, and discover they are not alone. Each session is self-contained and step-by-step; many include reproducible handouts. Introductory and background materials help even less-experienced group leaders feel prepared and secure in their role. For advising teachers, counselors, and youth workers in all kinds of school and group settings working with gifted kids in grades 6–12.




The Gifted Teen Survival Guide


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Based on new surveys of nearly 1,500 gifted teens, this book is the ultimate guide to thriving in a world that doesn’t always support or understand high ability. Full of surprising facts, survey results, step-by-step strategies, inspiring teen quotes, 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. The fourth edition has been revised for a new generation of high-end learners and includes information on twice-exceptionality, emotional and social intelligence, creativity, teen brain development, managing life online, testing and standards, homeschooling, International Baccalaureate programs, college alternatives, STEM careers, cyberbullying, and other hot topics.




Understanding Gifted Adolescents


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Understanding Gifted Adolescents: Accepting the Exceptional addresses the basis of exclusive education for gifted adolescents from the theoretical perspective of social identity. Using the lens of social identity theory and adolescent development related to giftedness, this book builds the case for a curriculum for gifted adolescents. By providing a comprehensive foundation for exploring the concept of a more exclusive education scholastically, and debunking the “elitist” concept of gifted education, this book is a well-organized and clearly-structured exposition for the philosophy of gifted education, as well as a means of putting a curricular model into practice in American high schools. With pointed critiques of differentiated instruction in the general education classroom and the current trend of standardization and normalization in the current educational climate, a new philosophy for addressing gifted education is presented.




Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students


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Teaching children how to manage their intense emotions is one of the most difficult aspects of parenting or educating gifted children. Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students: Helping Kids Cope With Explosive Feelings provides a much-needed resource for parents and educators for understanding of why gifted children are so extreme in their behavior and how to manage the highs and lows that accompany emotional intensity. Presented in an easy-to-read, conversational style, this revised and updated second edition contains additional chapters addressing temperament and personality development, as well as expanded role-plays and strategies designed to show parents and teachers how to interact and guide gifted children in a way that teaches them how to recognize, monitor, and adjust their behavior. Updated resources and worksheets make this practical resource a must-read for anyone wishing to make a positive and lasting impact on the lives of gifted children.




Suicide Among Gifted Children and Adolescents


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The updated second edition of Suicide Among Gifted Children and Adolescents explores the suicidal behavior of 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. In addition, the book includes chapters offering insight into the lived experience of students with gifts and talents, and what we can do to prevent suicide among gifted students, including creating caring communities and specific counseling strategies. It also provides a list of resources available to help.




A Parent's Guide to Gifted Teens


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Gifted teenagers require special understanding in order to thrive. Learn how to understand your adolescent's intensity and excitability, how to nurture creativity and self-directed learning, how to offer support without taking control, and how to care for yourself as the parent of an intense and creative teen. This book helps parents to view the challenging years of middle school and high school not merely as college prep, but as a preparation for life.




Models of Counseling Gifted Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults


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Part I: Introduction $x chapter 1 $x Introduction 1 $x by Sal Mendaglio $x Models of Counseling the Gifted 3 $x References 4 $x chapter 2 $x Counseling Issues and Research 7 $x by Sidney M. Moon $x What Is Giftedness? 8 $x Behavioral Characteristics 13 $x Affective and Conative Issues 15 $x Counseling Interventions 19 $x Conclusion 26 $x References 27 $x Part II: The Models $x chapter 3 $x Affective-Cognitive Therapy $x for Counseling Gifted Individuals 35 $x by Sal Mendaglio $x Conception of Giftedness 35 $x Conception of Personality 44 $x Model of Counseling 47 $x Application 57 $x References 67 $x chapter 4 $x A Systems Approach to Counseling $x Gifted Individuals and Their Families 69 $x by Volker Thomas and Karen E. Ray $x Introduction 69 $x Conception of Giftedness 70 $x Conception of Personality 74 $x Model of Counseling 75 $x Application 88 $x Conclusion 92 $x References 92 $x chapter 5 $x A Developmental Perspective 97 $x by Jean Sunde Peterson $x Conception of Giftedness 97 $x Conception of Personality 104 $x Model of Counseling 105 $x Application 116 $x Case Illustration 119 $x References 124 $x chapter 6 $x Counseling Underachieving Students $x and Their Parents 127 $x by Caryln L. Saunders $x Conception of Giftedness 127 $x Conception of Personality 130 $x Model of Counseling 131 $x Applications 144 $x References 150 $x chapter 7 $x Counseling Highly Gifted Children $x and Adolescents 153 $x by Catherine M. Boland and Miraca U.M. Gross $x Conception of Giftedness 153 $x Conception of Personality 162 $x Model of Counseling 167 $x Application 182 $x References 194 $x chapter 8 $x Gifted Identity Formation: $x A Therapeutic Model for Counseling $x Gifted Children and Adolescents 199 $x by Andrew Mahoney, Don Martin, $x & Magy Martin $x Conception of Giftedness 199 $x Conception of Personality 207 $x Model of Counseling 210 $x Application 215 $x References 227 $x chapter 9 $x Science, Spirit, and Talent Development 231 $x by Barbara Kerr $x Conception of Giftedness 231 $x Conception of Personality 236 $x Model of Counseling 238 $x Application 247 $x References 250 $x chapter 10 $x The Role of Counseling in the Development $x of Gifted Students' Actiotopes: $x Theoretical Background and Exemplary $x Application of the 11-SCC 253 $x by Albert Ziegler and Heidrun Stoeger $x Conception of Giftedness 253 $x Conception of Personality 261 $x Model of Counseling 262 $x Application 270 $x Concluding remarks 280 $x References 281 $x Part III: Conclusion $x chapter 11 $x Conclusion 285 $x by Jean Peterson $x Conception of Giftedness 286 $x Conceptions of Personality 287 $x Model of Counseling 288 $x Application 291 $x Conclusion 292 $x References 292 $x About the Authors 301 $x About the Editors 301 $x About the Authors 302 $x.




Teach for Attention!


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A lively read from a working teacher offers practical engagement strategies for students with attention challenges If learning is a motor, student engagement is the key. But when teaching students with ADHD and other attention challenges, sometimes even the most finely tuned classroom can sputter. Teach for Attention! is your tool belt of teaching strategies for students with ADHD, low self-confidence, distraction, and other attention challenges. Dozens of true classroom stories show the strategies in action. It’s all about making simple fixes so you can reach every student without changing your approach or revamping your curriculum. Carry these ideas with you like tools on a belt—the right one will be there when you need it!




Educating Gifted Students in Middle School


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Educating Gifted Students in Middle School: A Practical Guide (3rd ed.) helps educators with the challenging task of understanding and meeting the needs of gifted students in middle school. This revised and updated third edition: Provides a rationale and framework that middle schools can use to fill the service gap for gifted and advanced learners. Addresses the needs of learners from diverse backgrounds. Shows how to implement effective program models. Identifies best practices for the classroom. Shares research-based curriculum models. Topics addressed include school organization, instructional strategies in the basic subject areas, cocurricular and summer programs, the missing link of executive function skills, and counseling at-risk gifted learners. Educating Gifted Students in Middle School focuses on creative, practical, and realistic school solutions that create a vital and responsive community for all students.




Get Gifted Students Talking


Book Description

Updated, practical resource helps teachers, counselors, and youth leaders bring gifted students together to talk face-to-face about important issues in their lives. In our digital era, young people need a safe, supportive place to connect and “just talk” with peers as well as with an attentive adult, whether that is a general education teacher, gifted specialist, youth counselor, or another leader. With new conversation topics, additional discussion questions, and a revised introduction, this updated edition of Get Gifted Students Talking addresses the issues faced by gifted students in middle school and high school. Through guided group discussions, young people: strengthen their social-emotional development gain self-awareness build important verbal communication skills cope with difficult emotions and more The book’s guided conversations are proven ways to reach out to gifted teens and address their concerns and needs through face-to-face communication, and the discussions can be easily adapted and customized. Introductory and background materials prepare group leaders of all experience levels to feel confident as discussion facilitators. Digital content includes reproducible handouts from the book.