Counselling the Gifted: What we Know,and How it can Help

Abstract

A new area of emphasis in gifted child education is counselling clever children as regards accepting and using their talents. Several areas of emphasis are involved in counselling the gifted — understanding giftedness, peer relationships, coping with lacklustre school environment — and each of these topics is reviewed.

Also, there are linkages between gifted child education and education of youngsters with other special learning needs. This linkage is reviewed and its importance is highlighted.

Lastly, there is much we still need to learn about the specific adjustment concerns of the gifted. These areas are listed, and each is then discussed in relation to its importance for improving the attitudes and performance of gifted youngsters.

Get full access to this article

View all access options for this article.

References

American Association for Gifted Children . On being gifted. New York: Walker and Company, 1978.

Callahan

C. M.

The gifted girl: An anomaly? In Barbe

W. B.

Renzulli

J. S.

(Eds.), Psychology and education of the gifted (3rd Edition). New York: Irvington Publishers, 1981.

Clark

Growing up gifted. (2nd edition). Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merril, 1983.

Delisle

Preventative counseling for the gifted adolescent: From words to action. Roeper Review, 1980, 3(2), 21–25.

Delisle

J. R.

Gifted children speak out. New York: Walker and Company, in press.

Gordon

E. W.

How guidance can help in the development of lives and careers. In Flanagan

J. C.

(Ed.), Perspectives on improving education: Project Talent's young adults look back. New York: Praeger Press, 1978.

Hollingworth

L. S.

Children above 180 IQ. New York: World Book Company, 1942.

Maker

C. J.

Providing programs for the gifted handicapped. Reston, VA: Council for Exceptional Children, 1977.

Mehorter

J. T.

Self and society: An independent study course for gifted high school students. Ann Arbor, MI: Dissertation Abstracts International, 1964. Order # 64–10, 909.

10.

National Commission on Excellence in Education . A nation at risk: The imperative for education reform. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, Stock #065-000-00177-2, 1983.

11.

Newland

T. E.

The gifted in socio-economic perspective. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1976.

12.

O'Shea

H. E.

Friendship and the intellectually gifted child. Exceptional Children, 1960, 26(6), 327–335.

13.

Purkey

W. W.

Inviting school success: A self-concept approach to teaching and learning. Belmont, CA: Wadsorth Publishing Company, 1978.

14.

Sanborn

M. P.

Counseling and guidance needs of the gifted and talented. In Passow

A. H.

(Ed.), The gifted and talented. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.

15.

Strang

Mental hygiene of gifted children. In Witty

(Ed.), The gifted child. Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath, 1951.

16.

Terman

L. M.

. The promise ofyouth, follow-up studies of a thousand gifted children, genetic studies of genius (Volume III). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1930.

17.

Torrance

E. P.

Problems of highly creative children. Gifted Child Quarterly, 1961, 5(2), 31–34.

18.

Torrance

E. P.

Guiding creative talent. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1962.

19.

Ward

V. S.

Educating the gifted: An axiomatic approach. Columbus, OH: Charles E. Merrill, 1961 .

20.

Webb

J. T.

Meckstroth

E. A.

Tolan

S. S.

Guiding the gifted child: A practical source for parents and teachers. Columbus, OH: Ohio Psychology Publishing Company, 1982.

21.

Whitmore

J. R.

Giftedness, conflict and underachievement. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1980.