Living with Intensity

Author: Susan Daniels
Publisher: Great Potential Press, Inc.
ISBN: 0910707898
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
This book describes the overexcitabilities often associated with gifted children and adults, as well as strategies for dealing with children and adults who experience them. It also provides essential information on Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration. Learn practical methods for nurturing sensitivity, intensity, perfectionism.

Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students

Author: Christine Fonseca
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000492605
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 170

Book Description
Teaching children how to manage their intense emotions is one of the most difficult aspects of parenting or educating gifted children. Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students: Helping Kids Cope With Explosive Feelings provides a much-needed resource for parents and educators for understanding of why gifted children are so extreme in their behavior and how to manage the highs and lows that accompany emotional intensity. Presented in an easy-to-read, conversational style, this revised and updated second edition contains additional chapters addressing temperament and personality development, as well as expanded role-plays and strategies designed to show parents and teachers how to interact and guide gifted children in a way that teaches them how to recognize, monitor, and adjust their behavior. Updated resources and worksheets make this practical resource a must-read for anyone wishing to make a positive and lasting impact on the lives of gifted children.

The Smart Teens' Guide to Living with Intensity

Author: Lisa Rivero
Publisher: Gifted Unlimited
ISBN: 9781935067009
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Discover Yourself as an intense and excitable learner, whether you go to public school, private school, or homeschool, and whether you love school or not. Topics include.

The Gift of Intensity

Author: Imi Lo
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 1529341175
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
This is a book about being successful, fulfilled and happy in a world in which you don't always feel you fit in. Many people are emotionally sensitive and intense and while these characteristics need not limit us, they often hold us back from expressing ourselves, being heard and taking charge of our life, love and work. This book is a complete guide which shows sensitive and intense people how to navigate, successfully and predictably, the fundamental relationships that make up their lives - demonstrating along the way that intense feelings are a gift not a curse. Grounded in the author's extensive clinical and personal experience, the book advises readers on challenges such as low self-esteem, family conflicts, loneliness, complex work challenges and times of emotional crisis. Readers are given actionable steps to change their lives.

"Mellow Out," They Say, If I Only Could

Author: Michael Piechowski
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780977753000
Category : Child psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 307

Book Description

A Parent's Guide to Gifted Teens

Author: Lisa Rivero
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780910707992
Category : Gifted children
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Gifted teenagers require special understanding in order to thrive. Learn how to understand your adolescent's intensity and excitability, how to nurture creativity and self-directed learning, how to offer support without taking control, and how to care for yourself as the parent of an intense and creative teen. This book helps parents to view the challenging years of middle school and high school not merely as college prep, but as a preparation for life.

Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults

Author: James T. Webb
Publisher: Great Potential Press, Inc.
ISBN: 0910707642
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 608

Book Description
Our brightest, most creative children and adults are often being misdiagnosed with behavioral and emotional disorders such as ADHD, Oppositional-Defiant Disorder, Bipolar, OCD, or Asperger?s. Many receive unneeded medication and inappropriate counseling as a result. Physicians, psychologists, and counselors are unaware of characteristics of gifted children and adults that mimic pathological diagnoses. Six nationally prominent health care professionals describe ways parents and professionals can distinguish between gifted behaviors and pathological behaviors. ?These authors have brought to light a widespread and serious problem?the wasting of lives from the misdiagnosis of gifted children and adults and the inappropriate treatment that often follows.? Jack G. Wiggins, Ph. D., Former President, American Psychological Association

Your Rainforest Mind: A Guide to the Well-Being of Gifted Adults and Youth

Author: Paula Prober
Publisher: Editeurs divers USA
ISBN: 9780692713105
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
Do you long to drive a Ferrari at top speed on the open road, but find yourself always stuck on the freeway during rush hour? Do you wonder how you can feel like "not enough" and "too much" at the same time? Like the rain forest, are you sometimes intense, multilayered, colorful, creative, overwhelming, highly sensitive, complex, and/or idealistic? And, like the rain forest, have you met too many chainsaws?Enter Paula Prober, M.S., M.Ed., who understands the diversity and complexity of minds like yours. In "Your Rainforest Mind: A Guide to the Well-Being of Gifted Youths and Adults," Paula explores the challenges faced by gifted adults of all ages. Through case studies and extensive research, Paula will help you tap into your inner creativity, find peace, and discover the limitless potential that comes with your Rainforest Mind.

Gifted Lives

Author: Joan Freeman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136929509
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 319

Book Description
This book reveals the dramatic stories of twenty outstandingly gifted people as they grew from early promise to maturity in Britain. Recorded over the last thirty-five years by award-winning psychologist, Joan Freeman, these fascinating accounts reveal the frustrations and triumphs of her participants, and investigates why some fell by the wayside whilst others reached fame and fortune. These exceptional people possess a range of intellectual, social and emotional gifts in fields such as mathematics, the arts, music and spirituality. Through their particular abilities, they were often confronted with extra emotional challenges, such as over-anxious and pushy parents, teacher put-downs, social trip-wires, boredom and bullying in school and conflicting life choices. Their stories illustrate how seemingly innocuous events could have devastating life-long consequences, and confront the reader with intriguing questions such as: Does having a brilliant mind help when you are ethnically different or suffering serious depression? How does a world-class pianist cope when repetitive strain injury strikes, or a young financier when he hits his first million? What is the emotional impact of grade-skipping? Joan Freeman’s insights into the twists and turns of these lives are fascinating and deeply moving. She shows us that while fate has a part to play, so does a personal outlook which can see and grab a fleeting chance, overcome great odds, and put in the necessary hard work to lift childhood prodigy to greatness. Readers will identify with many of the intriguing aspects of these people’s lives, and perhaps learn something about themselves too.

Some of My Best Friends are Books

Author: Judith Wynn Halsted
Publisher: Great Potential Press, Inc.
ISBN: 0910707960
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 592

Book Description
Recommends books for gifted readers that provide insights and coping skills for issues they may face from preschool through high school, featuring more than three hundred titles with brief summaries, organized by reading levels; and includes an index arranged by theme.