Title
Understanding the gifted adolescent: Educational, developmental, and multicultural issues
Abstract
"Understanding the Gifted Adolescent: Educational, Developmental, and Multicultural Issues" is a seminal volume whose purpose is to fill a void in the literature that until now has focused exclusively on younger gifted children. It deals not only with the educational but also the psychological issues that impact gifted learners as they make the arduous transition from children to adulthood.
Topics covered include career decision making, spiritual and moral development, sexuality, and problems such as eating, anxiety, and stress disorders that may result from psychosocial maladjustment and the often self-imposed pressure of perfectionism.
Three chapters are devoted to the doubly difficult task of the minority student, who must come to terms with these developmental issues while battling racist attitudes that consistently work to undermine self-esteem and cultural pride.
This volume emphasizes that teachers, counselors, and parents play a key role in helping gifted adolescents solidify their personal beliefs and objectives. It makes clear that the internal conflicts that characterize adolescence need not keep gifted students from realizing their potential. Rather, from these conflicts, leadership skills and a solid sense of individuality can be born.
This text will be a valuable resource for preservice and inservice teachers, counselors, program administrators, and district coordinators of gifted programs. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
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Publisher
Teachers College Press
Loc. in Archive
618048262; 1991-97831-000
Extra
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Title: Understanding the gifted adolescent: Educational, developmental, and multicultural issues
abstractTranslation: "Understanding the Gifted Adolescent: Educational, Developmental, and Multicultural Issues" es un volumen seminal cuyo propósito es llenar un vacío en la literatura que hasta ahora se ha centrado exclusivamente en los niños superdotados más pequeños. Se ocupa no solo de los problemas educativos, sino también de los psicológicos que afectan a los estudiantes superdotados cuando realizan la ardua transición de los niños a la edad adulta. Los temas tratados incluyen la toma de decisiones profesionales, el desarrollo espiritual y moral, la sexualidad y problemas como la alimentación, la ansiedad y los trastornos de estrés que pueden resultar de la inadaptación psicosocial y la presión a menudo autoimpuesta del perfeccionismo. Tres capítulos están dedicados a la tarea doblemente difícil del estudiante de una minoría, que debe llegar a un acuerdo con estos problemas de desarrollo mientras lucha contra las actitudes racistas que constantemente trabajan para socavar la autoestima y el orgullo cultural. Este volumen enfatiza que los maestros, consejeros y padres juegan un papel clave para ayudar a los adolescentes superdotados a solidificar sus creencias y objetivos personales. Deja claro que los conflictos internos que caracterizan a la adolescencia no tienen por qué impedir que los estudiantes superdotados desarrollen su potencial. Más bien, de estos conflictos, pueden nacer habilidades de liderazgo y un sólido sentido de individualidad. Este texto será un recurso valioso para maestros en formación y en servicio, consejeros, administradores de programas y coordinadores de distrito de programas para superdotados. (Registro de la base de datos PsycInfo (c) 2024 APA, todos los derechos reservados) (Fuente: portada)
Notas
Última actualización - 2024-06-20
TOCDataText - (Abbreviated); Foreword [by] James Borland; Preface; Adolescence and giftedness: A look at the issues / Marlene Bireley and Judy Genshaft / 1-17; Parenting the gifted adolescent--Special problems, special joys / Sylvia B. Rimm / 18-32; Part I: Personal issues; Psychosocial needs of the gifted adolescent / Diane E. Frey / 35-49; Eating disorders in the gifted adolescent / David M. Garner / 50-64; Perfectionism and the gifted adolescent / Miriam Adderholdt-Elliott / 65-75; Stress management with the gifted adolescent / Judy Genshaft and Jim Broyles / 76-87; Part II: Educational issues; Encouraging higher level thinking in the gifted adolescent / Susan R. Amidon / 91-103; Encouraging creativity and talent in adolescents / Jane Piirto / 104-121; Leadership and gifted adolescents / Frances A. Karnes and Suzanne Meriweather-Bean / 122-138; Patterns of underachievement among gifted students / E. Susanne Richert / 139-162; The paradoxical needs of the disabled gifted / Marlene Bireley / 163-175; University and community-based programs for the gifted adolescent / Raymond H. Swassing and George R. Fichter / 176-185; Part III: Lifestyle and career issues; Learning styles: One way to help gifted adolescents understand and choose lifestyles / Marlene Bireley / 189-200; Career choices for gifted adolescents: Overcoming stereotypes / Constance L. Hollinger / 201-214; Moral and spiritual development of the gifted adolescent / Karen B. Tye and Marlene Bireley / 215-227; Part IV: Multicultural issues; Gifted black adolescents: Beyond racism to pride / Alexinia Young Baldwin / 231-239; Gifted Hispanic adolescents / Vicente Z. Ortiz and Alexander Gonzalez / 240-247; Gifted adolescents in the emerging minorities: Asians and Pacific Islanders / Robert Woliver and Gail Muranaka Woliver / 248-257; The gifted adolescent in perspective [by] Judy Genshaft; About the editors and the contributors; Index
PubXState - NY
Fecha de revisión - 19910101
Citación
Understanding the gifted adolescent: Educational, developmental, and multicultural issues. (1991). Teachers College Press. APA PsycInfo® (618048262; 1991-97831-000). https://www.proquest.com/books/understanding-gifted-adolescent-educational/docview/618048262/se-2?accountid=15299