Parent Guidance
Crisis Management Before parents can be helped to manage the crisis, its origins need to be determined. Serious academic problems, anxiety, depression, physical symptoms,
Therapy for Gifted Children and Adolescents
Therapy for Gifted Children and Adolescents
Overview
From the very beginning, gifted children are a challenge! Parents and their children readily agree that ‘being gifted is no gift’!
They are brilliant, creative, hypersensitive to the needs of others, the world at large, and to real and imagined insults from their environment. They are fiercely independent but, despite their brilliance, they often are unable to reflect on the impact of their own behaviour. Nonetheless, once a therapeutic relationship is forged and their giftedness is harnessed, they can use their dazzling intellectual abilities to go beyond to figure out the puzzle of ‘what makes them tick’.
“You keep saying my symptoms are because I won’t accept my giftedness. I know I am smart, but I don’t know about gifted. I think there is some basic physical defect – maybe its genetic- , that hasn’t yet been discovered.”
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