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Authors: Rosemary Callard-Szulgit
ISBN-13: 9781578860616, ISBN-10: 157886061X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: September 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Rosemary Callard-Szulgit

Book Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

Preface
1What is Perfectionism?1
2Who Are the Gifted and Talented?13
3Common Negative Behaviors of Perfectionists39
4The Positives of Perfectionism49
5The Negatives of Perfectionism51
6How to Recover from Perfectionism61
7Commonly Asked Questions About Perfectionism65
8Advocacy85
9Gifted Children Speak to Us99
App.: Resources111
References121
Bibliography123
Index129
About the Author133

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