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This chapter introduces 3 models, or lenses, which provide a framework for focusing on work that is client-directed and strengths-based: innerview guidance; transrational philosophy; and solution-focused approach. The authors explain how spiritually integrated coaching practices utilize these 3 lenses and demonstrate the processes that empower the client to become the expert on their own life. The case study explores the coaching journey of Alina, a data-entry clerk in her early 30s, who sought to discover her life's purpose and create a happier life. Despite her Romanian Orthodox upbringing, Alina had lost touch with her spiritual side and felt unfulfilled. The coach employed a unique approach, combining traditional coaching techniques with imaginative exercises and artwork. Through drawing and coloring, Alina was able to tap into her unconscious mind and gain insight into her desires and blocks. The coach used powerful questioning to help Alina explore her images and uncover hidden strengths and areas of giftedness. While Alina made significant progress, including identifying joyful activities and adjusting her work schedule, she ultimately did not find her life's purpose. The coach attributes this to Alina's unresolved childhood traumas and lack of faith dimension in her search for purpose. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

This chapter introduces pairing imaginative exercises and artwork with traditional coaching and focuses on working with the symbolic imagination. The author explains the Image Guidance process, which involves the client's own unique imagery. She demonstrates how this is utilized to effect change, thus aiding in the client's journey to finding happiness and life purpose. This case study explores the coaching journey of Alina, a data-entry clerk in her early 30s, who sought to discover her life's purpose and create a happier life. Despite her Romanian Orthodox upbringing, Alina had lost touch with her spiritual side and felt unfulfilled. The coach employed a unique approach, combining traditional coaching techniques with imaginative exercises and artwork. Through drawing and coloring, Alina was able to tap into her unconscious mind and gain insight into her desires and blocks. The coach used powerful questioning to help Alina explore her images and uncover hidden strengths and areas of giftedness. While Alina made significant progress, including identifying joyful activities and adjusting her work schedule, she ultimately did not find her life's purpose. The coach attributes this to Alina's unresolved childhood traumas and lack of faith dimension in her search for purpose. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

This chapter focuses on exceptionality, specifically giftedness, in African American, Latinx, and emergent bilingual students (EB) due to the breadth and depth of existing literature on these populations relative to other minoritized groups. It also utilizes Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a framework to understand why these groups have historically been and continue to be excluded from gifted education. Systemic factors such as enrollment in low-resourced and overcrowded schools, tracking, school discipline, and criminalization of minoritized youth create educational inequities. Additionally, racism, narrow views of giftedness, linguistic discrimination, and the instruments and processes used to identify exceptionalities disproportionately impact African American, Latinx, and EB students. These factors often preclude minoritized students from being referred, identified, and placed in gifted programs. The chapter begins with a discussion of how giftedness has been defined. It reviews disparities in gifted education, analyzes said disparities using CRT, examines the unique experiences of gifted African American, Latinx, and EB students, and concludes with a discussion of approaches and recommendations to advance minoritized students' access and success. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: create)

Attitudes toward the gifted in a social environment can be either encouraging or inhibiting for their development. The phenomenon of the complexity of giftedness is attracting more attention from numerous researchers. A pluralistic approach to the phenomenon of giftedness opens the way to an empirical validation of the phenomenon, but the abundance of empirical materials from both the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries provide no unambiguous results. The empirical data suggest an increasing percentage (20%t and more) of the gifted are unsuccessful (i.e., the phenomenon of underachievers in schools). This chapter highlights empirical, independent research projects of Krneta, as well as some other relevant researchers. The results obtained from the relevant samples from Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Croatia may be useful to other educational systems in the region, due to the similarities between the Balkan countries. The findings reflect the social context of the countries from the region (i.e., in transition) and may be related to the education of the gifted, the brain drain, and the capacities of the (local) economy to employ the gifted and to use their creative capacities. Implications include a need to design adequate educational support for gifted students and communication in schools. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

The cognitive, social, and emotional characteristics of gifted students that lead to underachievement remain misunderstood by many educators. There are still myths that maintain that gifted students should excel in every academic endeavor, and whenever they don't, this is simply them underachieving. There are those who do not acknowledge, let along address, the learning disabilities of gifted student when they co-exist. On the other hand, when students are in a position to move on when ready or compact the curriculum when they have obviously mastered the content, some educators will not extend learning with more rigorous content, also causing the students not to maximize their academic talents. The impactful reality of underachievement of gifted students can generate scars (negative implications) for their entire lives in terms of identity and talent development. As such, the authors emphasize the importance of continuing education for all teachers, of continual and updated training. All students deserve to learn at a pace and level which are respectful (appropriately rigorous, challenging, and responsive to their learners' profile. And it is the responsibility of all educators to strategically and effectively appeal to the unique needs of each student. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

This chapter is grounded in the supposition that competitive, varsity-level sports serve as a source that has not been utilized to identify academically gifted students who may have been overlooked and/or underserved, due to the discriminatory nature in which educational systems have historically regarded and identified giftedness in students. There are some scholar-athletes whose kinesthetically gifted traits may otherwise go undervalued and be misperceived as physical talent only. As such, this is a lost opportunity to translate these strengths for academic success, resulting in incomplete development of the gifts and talents, which is another form of underachievement that affects potential in and out of the classroom. The chapter provides an example that offers an ethnographic and anecdotal vignette. It illuminates the positive impact of the intersectionality (compounded effects of overlapping conditions) of a student-athlete's diverse expression of gifts and talents. The authors have laid out evidence and processes that support observing and translating athletic talent as an identified gift to address unidentified and academically-undervalued talents of gifted scholar-athletes. They integrate kinesiology to understand the psychology and cognitive processes behind athletic talent as displayed by on-field cognitive skills. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)