Continuing Education Home Study Courses
Earn credit from your home, work at your own pace and prepare to better serve the gifted community. The SENG Home Study Courses are developed from leading resource books on aspects of giftedness. Information on each course is provided below. Exams and books are sold separately.
Ordering Information
- Purchase the exam online or by completing and returning the PDF order form.
- When your order is processed, you will receive an email attachment with the test questions.
- Order the book using the corresponding links in the course descriptions.
- The exam may be completed and returned via toll-free fax to (866) 728-4990, or it may be scanned and emailed as an attached file to homestudy@sengifted.org.
NOTE: A discount is available for educational organizations and groups with more than 5 participants. Please email office@sengifted.org to enroll your group
Documentation of CE Credit
- Successful completion of course is achieved by correctly obtaining 80% or higher on exam.
- Individuals who score lower than 80% on the first attempt may retake the exam.
- The documentation of CE Credit will be provided via email within one week of receipt of exam. A printable CE Certificate will be attached to confirmation of passing grade.
- Your name will be added to SENG’s Recognized Professionals page, a listing by state of professionals that have received training specific to the field of giftedness.
- Please note that to protect the integrity of the Home Study exams, SENG does not provide corrected answers for submitted exams.
There is a great need for professionals with training in aspects of giftedness. The SENG Recognized Professionals page has been developed in recognition of the efforts of professionals that successfully complete a SENG CE course. While SENG does not endorse individual service providers, this listing may also serve as a resource for those who seek professionals familiar with gifted issues.
Home Study Course Descriptions
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 Bright, Talented & Black. Joy Lawson Davis, EdD
292 pages, 40 multiple choice questions
6 APA Credits
Cost: $55.00
About the book…
As a result of completing this home study course, participants will be able to:
- Empower and enlighten parents, families, educators & communities.
- Improve understandings of the unique intellectual and socio-emotional challenges faced by gifted African American learners in today’s schools.
- Introduce and enable discussion of the systemic issues surrounding underachievement of culturally diverse students.
- Increase the rate of referrals and identification of culturally diverse students to gifted education and other advanced-learner programs.
Course fee does not include the book, which is available from Great Potential Press.
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Order Book from Great Potential Press
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 Handbook of Giftedness in Children: Psycho-Educational Theory, Research, and Best Practices. Edited by Steven I. Pfeiffer
420 pages, 60 multiple choice and true/false questions
10 APA Credits
Cost: $90.00
About the book…
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As a result of completing this home study course, participants will be able to:
- Describe the major conceptions of giftedness
- Apply best practices in gifted identification
- Explain why certain characteristics of the gifted increase their risk/vulnerability
- Create a comprehensive treatment plan for a gifted child with social, emotional or behavioral problems
- Predict which gifted children are at risk for educational underachievement/failure
- Compare the different curriculum and instruction designed for the gifted
- Utilize a family systems model in counseling the gifted child with psychiatric problems
- Write a multi-dimensional treatment plan for a gifted child in counseling
- Describe how introversion and shyness may develop in gifted children
- Describe and discuss multi-potentiality
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 Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults. James T. Webb, PhD; Edward A. Amend, PsyD; Nadia E. Webb, PsyD; Jean Goerss, MD, MPH; Paul Beljan, PsyD; F. Rich Olenchak, PhD
265 pages, 40 multiple choice and true/false questions
6 APA Credits
Cost: $55.00
About the book…
As a result of completing this home study course, participants will be able to:
- Describe how some gifted children are misdiagnosed
- Describe how some gifted children are missed-diagnosed or not diagnosed when they have an actual psychiatric disorder
- Explain why parents, teachers, and physicians might misinterpret characteristics of the gifted as abnormal or pathological
- Predict which gifted might be incorrectly prescribed psychotropic medication
- List the major characteristics of giftedness
- Demonstrate how the family can play a helpful role in a gifted child’s adjustment to a mismatch with their environment/school
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Order Book from Great Potential Press
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| The Gifted: Clinical Challenges for Child Psychiatry. Steven I. Pfeiffer, PhD, ABPP
The American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Vol. 48; Number 8; August 2009.
4 pages, 6 true/false questions
1 CE Credit
Cost: $20.00
Individuals who successfully complete this Home Study Course will:
- Obtain an understanding of definitional issues which contribute to the misunderstanding of the gifted.
- Obtain information on prevalence estimates for the gifted.
- Learn about the most common characteristics of the gifted.
- Gain an understanding about the twice exceptional — the gifted with a mental health disorder.
- Learn about the most common parental concerns and questions asked of professionals about their gifted child.
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 The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: What Do We Know? Edited by Maureen Neihart, PsyD; Sally M. Reis, PhD; Nancy M. Robinson, PhD; Sidney M. Moon, PhD
328 pages,50 multiple choice and true/false questions
8 APA Credits
Cost: $75.00
About the book…
After completing this course, participants will have:
- An understanding of the recent research on the social and emotional needs of gifted children.
- An understanding of Dabrowski’s Theory as it applies to gifted children and adults
- Knowledge of risk factors associated with the social and emotional development of gifted children.
- Comprehension of gender differences as they relate to gifted children
- A general understanding of protective factors as they relate to the social and emotional well-being of gifted children
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SENG is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. SENG maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
