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This study uses the methods and procedures of psychological autopsy to portray the life of an academically gifted college student who completed suicide. The study is unique in that it follows the subject across his 21 years of life, highlighting relevant milestones and significant stages and events. A comprehensive view of the life and death of a gifted student is offered through both researchers' and parents' perspectives, along with multiple theoretical explanations, including a developmental explanation.
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This full text article is an op-ed piece by Dr. Nicholas Colangelo addressing the "Indigo children" movement. Colangelo defines the movement and urges colleagues not to get involved. He warns about the detrimental effect on children of giving them an aura of being "beyond the rules."
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This article by Maureen Neihart explores studies on the link between creativity and madness. It explains that there definitely is a more frequent occurrence of certain types of mental problems in those who are exceptionally creative. It also brings up questions such as whether the creativity causes the higher incidence of mental illness or visa versa.
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This article examines 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. These findings raise questions about the efficacy of quantitative research instruments to determine actual cases of depressive disorder in this subgroup, as well as current research estimates of depression in the highly gifted population.
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This full text article is a book section from Living With Grief. It offers a list of some common myths about children and adolescents and how they deal with loss and grief. It also offers practical suggestions for parents and family members to help with the process.
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This article by Lesley Sword explores and explains emotional intensity in gifted individuals. A number of traits of emotionally intensity are described. Strategies for parents are suggested to help their emotionally intense gifted children to accept themselves as they are.
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This article by James Webb discusses existential depression among gifted young people. He examines what it is, how it may manifest in a gifted child, and what a parent can do to help their child through these difficult feelings. He points out that gifted young people are more likely to have this type of depression because of their more highly developed sensitivities.
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This article by Deirdre Lovecky examines traits common to high-abilitiy young people, gives examples of gifted students with these traits, and offers suggestions on how to deal with issues that might arise due to these traits.Gifted children seem to have "...certain social/emotional traits in common including: heightened sensitivity, emotional intensity and reactivity, feeling different, perfectionism and uneven development of intellectual and emotional areas..." Parenting gifted children can be a challenge because there is little information o...
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This article by Paula Olszewski-Kubilius and Jeff Yasumoto examined what influenced students when choosing courses at a summer academic program. The study found several factors influencing the choices students made, including previous academic experience and race. Parental attitudes had the greatest effect on students choice across all variables.
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This article by Miraca Gross discusses the lack of differentiation between the levels or degrees of gifted individuals by professionals in gifted education. She also presents findings on the effects of this practice on the students. The results of the study indicated that extremely gifted students require a carefully planned and monitored program of radical acceleration, whereas the current practice of age-peer ability grouping, moderate acceleration is more appropriate for moderately gifted students.
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