Serving the Gifted: Evidence-Based Clinical and Psychoeducational Practice

Designed for practitioners who work with the gifted, this volume is intended to serve as a practical and easy-to-use resource for working with gifted students, their teachers, and their parents and families. It provides timely, practical, evidence-based techniques and guidelines to help these practitioners better help an underserved group.

The book is written in a user-friendly style that makes this a quick, simple, and easy reference. Topics covered include:

• identification and assessment of gifted students;
• important information for understanding the needs of the gifted;
• counseling and psychotherapy strategies;
• career counseling for gifted and talented students;
• methods for working with the families of the gifted; and
• legally-correct and ethically-smart counseling techniques.

An accompanying CD contains valuable resources such as PowerPoint presentations and reproducible handouts and forms.

Table of Contents

Serving the Gifted in the Schools.

Conceptions of Giftedness: Who are the Gifted?

Creativity.

Screening, Identification, and Assessment.

Meeting the Educational needs of the Gifted Student.

Gifted Students with Coexisting Disabilities: The Twice Exceptional Student.

Working with Parents.

Counseling Gifted Students.

Frequently Asked Questions Regarding the Gifted.