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Social and Emotional Issues

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Author	Article
Judith Wynn Halsted	Using Books to Meet the Social and Emotional Needs of Gifted Students Reprinted from the SENG Update January 2010
Michael F. Shaughnessy	9 Important Topics about the Social and Emotional Needs of the Gifted Based on an Interview with Carol McGaughey Reprinted from the SENG Update December 2009
Joseph and Holly Hughes	Through His Eyes and Through His Mother's Eyes Reprinted from the SENG Update November 2009
Stephen Balzac	Maintaining Motivation: It's a Marathon! Reprinted from the SENG Update May 2009
Sharon M. Barnes, MSSW, LCSW	Tips for Helping Gifted, Highly Sensitive Teens & Kids Cope with Trauma Reprinted with permission from the author.
Thomas M. Buescher and Sharon Higham	Helping adolescents adjust to giftedness EC Digest #E489 from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education
Jill D. Burruss and Lisa Kaenzig	Introversion: The Often Forgotten Factor Impacting the Gifted From the Virginia Association for the Gifted Newsletter. 1999 Fall 21(1). Reprinted with permission.
Anne Cronin	Asynchronous development and sensory integration intervention in the gifted and talented population Reprinted with permission from the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.
Tracy L. Cross	Competing with myths about the social and emotional development of gifted students From Gifted Child Today. 2002 Summer. Reprinted with permission.
Tracy L. Cross	Social/Emotional Needs: The Rage of Gifted Students From Gifted Child Today. 2001 Spring. Reprinted with permission.
James Delisle	Risk-taking and risk-making: Understanding when less than perfection is more than acceptable Reprinted with permission from the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.
Arlene R. DeVries	Appropriate expectations for the gifted child Reprinted with permission from the Great Potential Press.
Joanne Foster and Dona Matthews	Troubling Times: How Parents and Teachers Can Help Children Understand and Confront Adversity Reprinted with permission from the authors.
Stephanie Ferguson	A Case for Affective Education: Addressing the Social and Emotional Needs of Gifted Students in the Classroom Reprinted with permission from the author
Miraca U. M. Gross	Factors in the social adjustment and social acceptability of extremely gifted children From Talent Development. 1994 2. Reproduced with permission from Great Potential Press.
Miraca U. M. Gross	"Play Partner" or "Sure Shelter": What gifted children look for in friendship From The SENG Newsletter. 2002 May 2(2) 1-3.
Miraca U. M. Gross	The "me" behind the mask: Intellectually gifted students and the search for identity From Roeper Review. 1998 Feb 20(3). Reprinted with permission.
Thomas P. Hébert	Managing His Image: The challenge of a gifted male Reprinted with permission of the author
Sharon Lind	Developing a feeling vocabulary Reprinted with permission from the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.
Sharon Lind	Overexcitability and the gifted Spanish Translation: La “sobreexcitabilidad” en los superdotados From The SENG Newsletter. 2001, 1(1) 3-6.
Deirdre V. Lovecky	Exploring social and emotional aspects of giftedness in children Reprinted with permission from Roeper Review. 1992 15(1) 18-25.
Deirdre V. Lovecky	Identity development in gifted children: Moral sensitivity Reprinted with permission from Roeper Review. 1997 20(2) 90-94.
Sharon J. Lynch	Should Gifted Students Be Grade-Advanced? From the SENG Update, June 2009.
Sal Mendaglio	Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration: Some implications for teachers of gifted students Reprinted with permission from AGATE. Fall 2002 15(2) 14-22.
F. Richard Olenchak	Affective development of gifted students with nontraditional talents Reprinted with permission from Roeper Review. 1999 May/Jun 21(4) 293-97.
F. Richard Olenchak	Talent development: Accommodating the social and emotional needs of secondary gifted/learning disabled students From the Journal of Secondary Gifted Education. 1994 5(3) 40-52. Reprinted with permission of Prufrock Press.
Sally M. Reis	Social and emotional issues faced by gifted girls in elementary and secondary school From The SENG Newsletter. 2002 2(3) 1-5.
Annemarie Roeper	The emotional needs of the gifted child Reprinted with permission from the author.
Ugur Sak	A Synthesis of Research on Psychological Types of Gifted Adolescents From the Journal of Secondary Gifted Education. 2004 15(2) 70-79. Reprinted by permission of Prufrock Press.
Patricia A. Schuler	Gifted kids at risk: Who's listening? Reprinted with permission from the author.
Patricia A. Schuler	Teasing and gifted children From The SENG Newsletter. 2002 2(1) 3-4.
SENG Update	See also these articles archived from SENG's monthly email newsletter: At-risk gifted by Therese Clifford Asynchronous development by Jean Goerss Diversity in giftedness by Cheryl Ackerman Attention and passion by Nadia Webb Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration by Cheryl Ackerman Introversion by Sharon Lind Supporting self-esteem by Beverly Shaklee Emotional sensitivity by Vicky Moyle
Linda Kreger Silverman	Developmental phases of social development From the Gifted Development Center. Reprinted with permission.
Linda Kreger Silverman	The moral sensitivity of gifted children and the evolution of society From Roeper Review. 17(2), 110-16. Reprinted with permission.
Linda Kreger Silverman	Promoting positive social development From the Gifted Development Center. Reprinted with permission.
Lesley Kay Sword	Emotional intensity in gifted children Spanish Translation: Intensidad emocional en los niños superdotados Copyright. Printed with the permission of Lesley Kay Sword, Director, Gifted and Creative Services Australia.