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Enhancing Resilience Of Gifted Students, Mihyeon Kim
Enhancing Resilience Of Gifted Students, Mihyeon Kim
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Researchers and practitioners have become increasingly interested in studying resilience to understand the high performance of gifted students who encounter difficult situations or pressures as well as those students’ developmental paths and characteristics (Noble, Subotnik, & Arnold,1999). Although studies on resilience have investigated risk and protective factors that result in adaptive consequences in the presence of adversity, there is no single agreed-upon definition of resilience. Researchers have approached the concept of resilience in different ways, depending on their purposes. In any case, resilience tends to involve connections between conditions of risk and apparent competence and is referred to as an …
Clinical And Mental Health Issues In Counseling The Gifted Individual, Jennifer Riedl Cross, Tracy L. Cross
Clinical And Mental Health Issues In Counseling The Gifted Individual, Jennifer Riedl Cross, Tracy L. Cross
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Research over the past several decades has identified several unique characteristics and experiences of gifted individuals that have implications for counselors. This article describes internal and external factors that contribute to gifted individuals' nonnormal lived experience and that may require counselors' specific attention to work effectively with gifted clients on clinical and mental health issues. These factors are applied to 4 issues: unhealthy perfectionism, anxiety, depression, and suicidality.