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Counseling the Gifted and Talented

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Dr. Silverman covers all the issues that our gifted children bring to us, in Counseling... I have two profoundly gifted children, and I wish I read this book sooner - it helps SO much in my understanding of them, of what they are going through. We, as parents, are our children's first counselor, and this book makes it so much easier for us to "do the job" for our gifted children.

Characteristics of giftedness, emotional aspects, over-excitabilities, special needs, peers, home, school, even multi-cultural and gender issues are dealt with in this comprehensive volume.

And every counselor, psychologist, and other professional who deals with gifted children shoudl read this book, and keep it as reference on their shelf... close at hand.

Mine is full of post-it flags... in my library, that says it all.

This book is the absolute best resource I have found for understanding the many and complex needs of gifted children. Her section on the "Gifted Over-Excitabilites" is tremendously helpful to parents, teachers and counselors working with this population. A copy belongs in every gifted education program as resource material for teachers and parents. As a parent of a gifted child, I say get your copy today

I am the mother of a highly gifted son and I have been reading everything I can get my hands on. This book has been invaluable. It confimed things I already knew, it opened my eyes to things I had missed, and it alerted me to issues to watch out for in thefuture. You *need* this book if you are a parent of a gifted child, and moreso if your child is highly or profroundly gifted.

This book is an excellent textbook, providing general information on the key points for counseling gifted children. It explains Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration, covers preventive counseling, discusses assessment tools, and gives basic information on many other topics related to the needs of gifted children.

Its limitations are that it doesn't go in depth on most topics (but a textbook covering a broad area isn't the forum for in depth coverage), it isn't intended for counseling gifted adults, and it was written in 1993. Because of this, many readers will want to read other literature. However, it's the right place to go to when beginning a study of counseling gifted individuals because it's overview information is complete and well-written.

Anyone who works with gifted students, their parents and/or their teachers needs to have this resource readily available. Ms. Silverman has gathered some of the most useful information available on counseling the gifted and talented student and their families.

Great book that anyone who works with gifted children, or has a gifted child, will need to read. A little costly, but well worth it...