Giftedness can be both an asset and a burden when gifted students respond to developmental challenges. Characteristics associated with high intellectual ability likely …
This article examines the nature and extent of depressive disorders in highly gifted adolescents based on current literature and data gathered from a phenomenological study …
JS Peterson - Professional School Counseling, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
Counseling concerns of highly able students may reflect characteristics associated with giftedness. Yet school counselor training programs give scant attention to this phenomenon …
JS Peterson - Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 1999 - journals.sagepub.com
Using a postpositivistic method of inquiry, this study examined themes that emerged in the language of Latino, African American, Native American, immigrant Asian, and low-income …
Gifted pupils who also have special needs often receive provision for the special need whilst the giftedness is overlooked. Children with such double exceptionality can become …
This retrospective study of professionally successful adults who were academic underachievers during adolescence (N= 31) explored the phenomenological experience of …
To meet affective needs of gifted adolescents, teachers in gifted education can avail themselves of the expertise and resources of school counselors who, especially in recent …
In this multiple-narrative inquiry, we examined the narratives of four underachieving gifted girls to identify aspects that appear to have contributed to the onset, development, and …
R Bar-On - Gifted Education International, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
Although the gifted represent an enormous asset to our society, most societies worldwide neglect this very important segment of the population and their potential contribution …