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Foreword | |
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Preface | |
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Introduction: A Continuum of Psychological Services | |
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About Gifted Children: Who they are and Why | |
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Examining Beliefs about the Gifted | |
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Determining the Needs of Gifted Children | |
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Competing with Myths about the Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Students | |
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Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: Straight Talk | |
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Gifted Children and Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development | |
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A Consideration of Axiomatic Statements | |
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How Gifted Students Cope with Mixed Messages | |
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Examining Claims about Gifted Children and Suicide | |
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On Chance and Being Gifted | |
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Being Gifted is Abnormal? | |
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Emotions and Giftedness | |
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Negotiating the Vicissitudes of Chance Factors | |
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Guiding Gifted Children | |
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How Families can Facilitate Students' Success | |
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Acceleration | |
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Guiding and Supporting the Development of Gifted Children | |
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Practical Advice for Guiding the Gifted | |
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Working on Behalf of Gifted Students | |
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Developing Relationships, Communication, and Identity | |
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Swagger or Humility or Swagger and Humility: A New Goal for Educating Students with Gifts and Talents | |
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Putting the Well-being of all Students (Including Gifted Students) First | |
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Owning the Problem of Undesirable Behavior: Disintermediation and How our Children Are Taught to Drink, Smoke, and Gamble | |
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Self-Mutilation and Gifted Children | |
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On Preventing Suicide Among Gifted Students | |
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Gifted Students and the Adults who Provide for them: Lessons Learned from Terrorism | |
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Gifted Children Today | |
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Gifted Students' Social and Emotional Development in the 21st Century | |
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Technology and the Unseen World of Gifted Students | |
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Digital Immigrants, Natives, and "Tweeners": A Glimpse into the Future for Our Students with Gifts and Talents | |
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Nerds and Geeks: Society's Evolving Stereotypes of our Students with Gifts and Talents | |
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The Lived Experiences of Gifted Students in School, or On Gifted Students and Columbine | |
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The Rage of Gifted Students | |
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The Many Faces of Bullies | |
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Psychological Autopsy Provides Insight into Gifted Adolescent Suicide | |
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Where we have been and where we are Going | |
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Don't Forget the Little Guys | |
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Three Questions | |
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Contemporary Issues in the Psychosocial Development of Students with Gifts and Talents | |
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The Changing Life Metaphor of Gifted Youth | |
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Changing Times | |
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Top 10 (Plus or Minus Two) List for the 20th Century | |
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Disrupting Social Contracts that affect Gifted Students: An Homage to "Harrison Bergeron" | |
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References | |
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Resources | |
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About the Author | |
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About the Contributors | |