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

Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults

Author: James T. Webb
Publisher: Anodyne, Incorporated DBA Great Potential Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781935067436
Category : Gifted children
Languages : en
Pages : 420

Book Description
Authors James T. Webb, Edward R. Amend, Paul Beljan, Nadia E. Webb, Marianne Kuzujanakis, F. Richard Olenchak. and Jean Goerss write about gifted children and adults misdiagnosed as having behavioral or emotional disorders such as ADD/ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, or Asperger's Disorder.

Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults

Author: James T. Webb
Publisher: Great Potential Press, Inc.
ISBN: 9780910707671
Category : Child psychopathology
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Different Minds

Author: Deirdre V. Lovecky
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1853029645
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 527

Book Description
Explaining why certain children are gifted and how giftedness is manifested, each chapter addresses the relevance for children with AD/HD and Asperger Syndrome. Lovecky guides parents and professionals through methods of diagnosis and advises on how best to nurture individual needs, positive behaviour and relationships at home and at school.

Guiding the Gifted Child

Author: James T. Webb
Publisher: Gifted Unlimited
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
This book seeks to increase the awareness by parents, teachers, and clinicians of the often overlooked unique emotional needs of gifted children.

A Parent's Guide to Gifted Children

Author: James T. Webb
Publisher: Great Potential Press, Inc.
ISBN: 0910707790
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 824

Book Description
Practical guidance in key areas of concern for parents, such as peer relations, siblings, motivation and underachievement, discipline, intensity and stress, depression, education planning, and finding professional help.

Gifted Parent Groups

Author: Arlene DeVries
Publisher: Great Potential Press, Inc.
ISBN: 0910707774
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
This manual provides essential information for persons wishing to conduct SENG Model parent groups. ho should receive SENG Training? Persons with some knowledge of gifted children who want to facilitate parent groups in an encouraging, non-confrontational style. GT Coordinators; Teachers; Counselors; Parents; Social workers; Psychologists.

Gifted Grownups

Author: Marylou Kelly Streznewski
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
Gifted Grownups, Marylou Kelly Streznewski's unprecedented, 10-year study of 100 gifted adults, examines how being identified as a "smart kid" early on affects career choices, friendships, and romantic pairings later in life. Why do some talented and gifted people become Mozarts and Einsteins or corporate chieftains, while others drop out of school, struggle to hold down jobs, or turn to self-destructive behavior? What are the signs of giftedness, its pitfalls, and its promise? Marylou Streznewski provides answers to these and other questions, and creates an intriguing picture of what it is like to have an accelerated mind in a slow-moving world.

Why Smart People Hurt

Author: Eric Maisel
Publisher: Mango Media Inc.
ISBN: 1609258851
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 235

Book Description
Make the most of your creative and intellectual gifts by overcoming the unique challenges they bring with this guide by the author of Natural Psychology. Many smart and creative people experience unique challenges as a result of their valuable gifts. These can range from anxiety and over-thinking to mania, depression, and despair. In Why Smart People Hurt, creativity coach Dr. Eric Maisel pinpoints these often-devastating challenges and offers solutions based on the groundbreaking principles and practices of natural psychology. Are you still searching for meaning after all these years? Many smart people struggle with reaching for or maintaining success because, after all of the work they put into attaining it, it still seems meaningless. In Why Smart people Hurt, Dr. Maisel will teach you how to stop searching for meaning and create it for yourself. In Why Smart People Hurt, you will find: · Evidence that you are not alone in your struggles · Strategies for coping with a brain that goes into overdrive at the drop of a hat · Questions that will help you create your own personal roadmap to a calm and meaningful life

The Survival Guide for Parents of Gifted Kids

Author: Sally Yahnke Walker
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
ISBN: 9781575421117
Category : Gifted children
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Defines giftedness and discusses special quirks and problems that arise living with a gifted child, from a lack of neatness to the "too-smart mouth," and explains how parents can find the right programs and make school as rewarding as possible for gifted children.