Articles


Dr. Linda Kreger Silverman's Articles on Gifted Children Development

Dr. Silverman provides five articles on Gifted Children Deveopment:

  • How Parents Can Support Gifted Children.
  • The Unique Inner Lives of Gifted Children.
  • If Our Child Is So Smart, Why Aren't Our Lives Easier?
  • Parenting Throughout the Lifespan.
  • Guidelines for Parents of the Gifted.

Five Social/Emotional Traits of Giftedness

Psychologist Diedre Lovecky's five social/emotional traits of giftedness.

Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration

Cheryl Ackerman describes Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration.

Bright Star--Black Sky

P. Susan Jackson's phenomenological study of depression as a window into the psyche of the gifted adolescent

Depressive disorder in highly gifted adolescents

P. Susan Jackson and Jean Peterson examine the nature and extent of depressive disorders in highly gifted adolescents based on current literature and data gathered from a phenomenological study, focus groups, and clinical records.

Seven C's of Resilience

Dr. Susan Sugerman of Girls to Women Health and Wellness - Seven C's of Resilience in Children and Teens

Living and Learning with Dabrowkski's Overexcitabilities

A teaching unit by Cindy Strickland.

SENG-Model Parent Support Groups

Arlene R. DeVries and James T. Webb outline the 10-week education series for parents of gifted children develop within SENG.

Discovery Teenergy

"For and about the lives of teenagers, especially gifted ones."