Authors: Rosemary Callard-Szulgit
ISBN-13: 9781578860616, ISBN-10: 157886061X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: September 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
During her 35 year career, Callard-Szulgit has found perfectionism to be the #1 social-emotional trait of gifted children. She has helped hundreds of students recover from its harmful effects. Perfectionism and Gifted Children provides insight into perfectionism, discussing why so many gifted children are perfectionists while providing common sense solutions to this problem. This book will be an immense help to parents and teachers of gifted children and gifted children themselves.
Preface | ||
1 | What is Perfectionism? | 1 |
2 | Who Are the Gifted and Talented? | 13 |
3 | Common Negative Behaviors of Perfectionists | 39 |
4 | The Positives of Perfectionism | 49 |
5 | The Negatives of Perfectionism | 51 |
6 | How to Recover from Perfectionism | 61 |
7 | Commonly Asked Questions About Perfectionism | 65 |
8 | Advocacy | 85 |
9 | Gifted Children Speak to Us | 99 |
App.: Resources | 111 | |
References | 121 | |
Bibliography | 123 | |
Index | 129 | |
About the Author | 133 |