Counseling Gifted and Talented Children: A Guide for Teachers, Counselors, and Parents »

There is a gap between the enormous need for counseling services and research about the counseling needs of gifted individuals, on the one hand, and the limited availability of such services and knowledge on the other. This book is designed to give counselors, classroom teachers, gifted education specialists, and parents an understanding of the academic and social-personal needs of gifted and talented students, awareness of ways that they themselves may help these children, and an introduction to the available guidance strategies and materials. This book highlights the role of regular classroom teachers and teachers of the gifted in counseling; provides teachers, counselors, and parents with information about the wide variety of approaches to enrichment and/or acceleration; emphasizes the major role of parents in the development of their gifted children; stresses career education and guidance. Four chapters are devoted to important topics that have received very little attention to date-gifted girls, preschool gifted, disadvantaged gifted, and learning-disabled gifted. Finally, a unique feature of the book is a chapter in which fictional portraits of gifted and creative children are presented and analyzed.

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Explains to regular classroom teachers, counselors, parents and professionals who deal with gifted children what the requirements of such children are, and what resources are available to meet those needs. Among the gifted considered in particular are girls, preschoolers, the disadvantaged, and the learning disabled. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contributors

Preface

PART I: COUNSELING GIFTED AND TALENTED CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

Counseling Gifted and Talented Children and Youth: Who, Where, What, and How?

Special Education Options for Gifted and Talented Learners

Teachers as Counselors for Gifted Students

Counseling Gifted Children With Different Learning-Style Preferences

People, Processes, and Developmental Paths to Eminence: A Developmental-Interactional Model

Guiding the Parents of Gifted Children: The Role of Counselors and Teachers

Career Education for Gifted and Talented Learners

PART II: COUNSELING GIFTED AND TALENTED LEARNERS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

Guiding Gifted Girls. Identification and Nurturance of Young Disadvantaged Gifted Children

Differentiating Instruction for Preschool Gifted Children

Educating the Learning-Disabled Gifted Children

Profiles in Giftedness: Fictional Portraits of Intelligent and Creative Children

Author Index

Subject Index