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Understanding and Treating the Emotional Problems of Gifted Children, Adolescents and Young Adults: A Psychotherapy Approach

Course Syllabus

Part I Saturday, October 23 from 8:45 AM to 10:00 AM

Part II will be held on Saturday, October 23 from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

Dr. Jerald Grobman
New York, NY

Dr. Grobman is a board certified psychiatrist in private practice in New York City. He specializes in the psychodynamic and cognitive/behavioral psychotherapy of gifted adolescents and adults. He is a senior supervisor in the Lenox Hill Hospital’s Psychology training program. His articles Underachievement in Exceptionally Gifted Adolescents and Young Adults Journal of Secondary Gifted Education 17:199-210 and A Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Approach to the Emotional Problems of Exceptionally Gifted Adolescents and Young Adults Journal for the Education of the Gifted 33:106-125 are available for download. Dr. Grobman is a member of the SENG Professional Advisory Committee. More information is available at Dr. Grobman’s website, www.psychotherapyservicesforthegifted.com

Clinical vignettes will illustrate the personality traits of gifted individuals and show how, regardless of circumstance, they often develop with a corresponding set of psychological conflicts. Unresolved, these conflicts can lead to learning disabilities, underachievement, depression, anxiety, mood disorders and self-destructive behavior.

Dr. Grobman will explain how the Psychiatric Diagnostic Manual ( DSM IV) is used to accurately diagnose these conditions and how psychotropic medications are used to treat them. He will describe the elements of a psychodynamic assessment process and show how it goes beyond DSM IV diagnoses as well as psychoeducational and neuropsychological testing protocols to formulate the deeper psychological issues of gifted individuals. In this way one can tell whether unresolved psychological symptoms are inhibiting the full expression of giftedness or unresolved conflicts about giftedness are causing psychological symptoms.

The stages of psychodynamic psychotherapy will be described as well as how this form of psychotherapy can inform mentoring and coaching and enhance other forms of therapy and counseling to meet the therapeutic needs of gifted individuals.

Participants are encouraged to read Dr. Grobman’s paper Underachievement in a Group of Exceptionally Gifted Adolescents and Young Adults: A Psychiatrist’s View available for download at: www.psychotherapyservicesforthegifted.com

New! Opportunity to receive APA credits with a SENG Home Study Course.
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