Handbook for Counselors Serving Students with Gifts and Talents: Development, Relationships, School Issues, and Counseling Needs/Interventions

The second edition of Handbook for Counselors Serving Students With Gifts and Talents provides the definitive overview of research on the general knowledge that has been amassed regarding the psychology of gifted students. This book:

• Introduces the reader to the varied conceptions of giftedness.
• Covers issues specific to gifted children and various intervention methods.
• Describes programs designed to fulfill the need these children have for challenge.
• Is updated and expanded, addressing contemporary issues.
• Reflects the latest research on giftedness.

With chapters authored by leading experts in the field, Handbook for Counselors Serving Students With Gifts and Talents is a resource professionals can turn to for answers to a wide variety of questions about gifted children.

Tracy L. Cross, Ph.D., holds an endowed chair, Jody and Layton Smith Professor of Psychology and Gifted Education, and is the executive director of the Center for Gifted Education and the Institute for Research on the Suicide of Gifted Students at William & Mary.

Jennifer Riedl Cross, Ph.D., is Director of Research at the William & Mary Center for Gifted Education.