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Ken Rigby addresses the fact that bullying abuse will affect 20% of school children and offers strategies to identify both bullies and victims.
http://www.education.unisa.edu.au/bullying/book.html
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This book from Roberta Milgram highlights the role of regular classroom teachers and teachers of the gifted in counseling; provides teachers, counselors, and parents with information about the wide variety of approaches to enrichment and/or acceleration.
http://doi.contentdirections.com/mr/greenwood.jsp?doi=10.1336/0893917249
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This book by Linda Kreger Silverman is an aid for any person related to or working with a gifted child. Ms. Silverman provides specific strategies for individual and group counseling in meeting the unique social and emotional needs of these individuals.
http://www.gifteddevelopment.com/Product_Marketing/CGT/cgt.htm
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This book review of Educational Psychology: A Century of Contributions, critiques the writer’s style and criteria. The book looks at the historic contributions of 16 leading psychologists, as well as others, who influenced the field of educational psychology. Each part of the book is divided into three sections: the founding period (1880s to 1920); the rise to romance period (1920 to1960); and the modern period (1960 to the present).
http://edrev.asu.edu/reviews/rev325.htm
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This book summarizes, for a general audience, decades of research on the positive aspects of human experience - joy, creativity, the process of total involvement with life called 'flow'. The author reveals how this pleasurable state can, in fact, be controlled, and not just left to chance, by setting challenges for ourselves. This book is the ideal introduction to this remarkable subject and a book that can lead its readers to discover the true richness of everyday life.
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This book by James T. Webb and Arlene Devries, provides information and instruction on the development of guided discussion groups for parents of gifted young people. The groups are designed to help parents gain a better understanding of their children and to help their children develop positive self-esteem and interpersonal skills.
http://www.giftedpsychologypress.com/bk0910707294.html
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This in-depth handbook examines the categories of exceptionality most often described in educational, behavioral, and health practices. Here, editors Vicki L. Schwean and Donald H. Saklofske compile valuable information from leading authorities in the medical, psychological and educational fields.
http://www.springer.com/west/home/new+&+forthcoming+titles+(default)?SGWID=4-40356-22-33182285-0
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Alissa Quart shows how a gifted childhood that is "relentlessly tested, totally overscheduled and joylessly competitive" is being created by some parents and concludes that "enrichment" not only doesn't necessarily work, it may be harmful.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2003251271_hothousekids11.html
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"Pessimism is escapable," asserts Martin Seligman, by learning a new set of cognitive skills that will enable you to take charge, resist depression, and make yourself feel better and accomplish more. Content includes test for you and your child, worksheets, and skill teaching for changing from pessimism to optimism.
http://www.shearonforschools.com/learned_optimism.htm
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Sal Mendaglio brings together a group of contributing authors who share in detail their approaches to counseling clients who are gifted and talented. This book is designed to help interested professionals, as well as those in preparation programs, conduct effective counseling techniques with highly able clients.
http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=619
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Jeff Hawkins develops a powerful theory of how the human brain works, explaining why computers are not intelligent and how, based on this new theory, we can finally build intelligent machines.
http://ebooks.palm.com/product/detail/17826
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"Parents, teachers, and especially counselors of the gifted should all read this book, and perhaps begin to understand...
Tracy Cross brings together years of columns from Gifted Child Today, but instead of sounding "dated," these columns offer good ideas and actions for today. Research on the social and emotional aspects of giftedness is slim; Cross combines his knowledge of this research with experience, resulting in a readable, useful, look into these unique kids' lives." Read an
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Today's responsible parents strive to raise children with healthy egos. But for a lot of adults, the word "ego" carries the negative connotation of "narcissism." Traditionally, the "good" child learned self-control, self-denial and placed parental needs and wishes first. If those needs were abusive to the child, there was no choice but to block the hurtful behavior in order to hold onto adults who were loved and needed. Miller recognized the link between certain emotional problems in adulthood and repressed childhood anguish.
http://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-Childhood-Drama-Gifted-Search/dp/0465062873
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This book from Bob Murray and Alicia Fortinberry, offers a safe, drug-free approach o protect your child from depression. Parents can learn how to spot the early signs fo depression and even prevent your own depression from influencing your child.
http://www.raisinganoptimisticchild.com/
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The authors summarize their observations of extremely gifted children observed in the course of testing and counseling at the New York University Clinic for the Social Adjustment of Gifted Children during the middle years of the 20th century. The chapter includes several clinical case studies and a discussion of educational and psychological problems faced by this population.
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In this book from Ron Braund and Dana Spears, learn a new parenting approach for your special needs child to be principle-oriented rather than rule-oriented, highly creative, overly sensitive and frustrated. Understand the crucial differences between a strong-willed child and a creative-sensitive child.
http://www.dreamerresources.com
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Helping a child become aware of the needs and feelings of others is one of the most difficult aspects of parenting. This nine-month program, designed for families with children aged three years and older, combines solid advice and telling anecdotes with quizzes, games, and other activities to guide parents every step of the way.
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This book deals with identification of the frustrated-explosive child and ways to deal with explosive behavior. This text examines the underlying reasons for explosive behavior. The author helps parents to identify the early stages of meltdown and also gives strategies for dealing with these types of children.
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This book from husband and wife team Brock Eide, M.D. and Fernette Eide, M.D., ofers this informative, clinical aid to labeling and dealing with various "brain-based learning challenges." Each of the 11 chapters focuses on a single type of learning system and the challenges that affect it.
http://mislabeledchild.com/
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The Optimistic Child offers parents and teachers the tools developed in Seligman's study of childhood depression to teach children of all ages life skills that transform helplessness into mastery and bolster self-esteem. Learning optimism not only reduces the risk of depression but also boosts performance in school, improved health, and provides children with the self-reliance they need as they approach adolescence and adulthood.
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Authors Neihart, Reis, Robinson, Moon offer an examination of the essential topics teachers, parents, and researchers need to know about the social and emotional development of gifted children. Instigated by a task force convened by the National Association for Gifted Children and written by leading scholars in the field of gifted education, the book includes chapters on peer pressure and social acceptance, resilience, delinquency, and underachievement. The book also summarizes several decades worth of research on special populations, including...
http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=161
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Howard Glasser and Jennifer Easley unveil an amazing set of strategies developed specifically for children with ADHD and other challenging behaviors to facilitate parenting and classroom success. These methods have helped thousands of families to transform their child from using their intensity in primarily negative ways to using their intensity in beautifully creative and constructive ways. This approach has also helped teachers and other school personnel to have a dramatically positive effect on all children.
http://difficultchild.com/sp-bin/spirit?PAGE=24&CATALOG=5
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Dr. Linda Kreger Silverman delivers a blueprint for parenting, teaching and living with these delightfully different beings. It is also a manual for discovering and honoring your own hidden gifts
http://www.visualspatial.org/udb.htm
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"In their second book together, Jim Delisle and Judy Galbraith explain what giftedness means, how gifted kids are identified, and how we might improve the identification process. Then they take a close-up look at gifted kids from the inside out—their social and emotional needs. Topics include self-image and self-esteem, perfectionism, multipotential, depression, feelings of “differentness,” and stress. The authors suggest ways to help gifted underachievers and those who are bored in school, and ways to encourage healthy relationships with frien...
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Handling the topic of teen depression, this author tells about treatment options, presents the facts about therapy, explains the differences between various types of helping professionals (psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, physicians, counselors, etc.), discusses medications and more.
http://www.freespirit.com/catalog/item_detail.cfm?ITEM_ID=193
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