Serving the Gifted

NOTE EDITORE

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 bookis 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 accompanyingCD will contain valuable resources such asPowerPoint presentations and reproducible handouts and forms.

SOMMARIO

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.

AUTORE

Steven I. Pfeiffer, PhD, ABPP, is a Professor at Florida State University, where he serves as Director of Clinical Training of the combined Counseling Psychology and School Psychology program.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780415997508
• Collana: School-Based Practice in Action
• Dimensioni: 9 x 6 in Ø 0.85 lb
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: 3 halftones
• Pagine Arabe: 248
• Pagine Romane: xvi