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Serving the Gifted

Evidence-Based Clinical and Psychoeducational Practice

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  • Price: $37.95 $34.16
  • Paperback: 264 pages
  • Also available in Hardback
  • Published: August 2012
  • ISBN: 978-0-415-99750-8
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Series: School-Based Practice in Action.

Designed specifically for school psychologists and school counselors, this volume is intended to serve as a practical and easy-to-use resource for working with gifted students, their teachers, and their parents and families. It provides timely, practical, evidence-based techniques and guidelines to help these practitioners better help an underserved group. The book is written in a user-friendly style that makes this a quick, simple, and easy reference. Topics covered include identification and assessment of gifted students; important information for understanding the needs of the gifted; counseling and psychotherapy strategies; career counseling for gifted and talented students; methods for working with the families of the gifted; and legally-correct and ethically-smart counseling techniques. An accompanying CD will contain valuable resources such as counseling forms, monitoring tools, and parent handouts.

Table of Contents

Serving the Gifted in the Schools. Conceptions of Giftedness: Who are the Gifted? Creativity. Screening, Identification, and Assessment. Meeting the Educational needs of the Gifted Student. Gifted Students with Coexisting Disabilities: The Twice Exceptional Student. Working with Parents. Counseling Gifted Students. Frequently Asked Questions Regarding the Gifted.

Author/Editor Biography

Steven Pfeiffer is a Professor in the College of Education at Florida State University, where he also serves as the Director of Clinical Training of their APA-accredited program in combined school/counseling psychology. His career has included teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, Fordham University, and Tulane University; serving as a clinical psychologist in the US Naval Medical Service Corps; and serving as the Director of Devereux Foundation's Institute of Clinical Training and Research. He is a licensed psychologist, fellow of the APA, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology. Dr. Pfeiffer is considered an authority on the psychology of giftedness.

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