Counselling the Gifted and Talented
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Joan Freeman
Professor Joan Freeman is a distinguished psychologist working in the development of human abilities to their highest levels. She has conducted and supervised substantial research, notably her continuing study of gifted children since 1974, and has published widely in this area, including 16 books. She has been honoured with The Lifetime Achievement Award for 2007 from the British Psychological Society.
By Joan Freeman
Published on 11/13/2007
The gifted and talented can be expected to be emotionally at least as well balanced as any others.
In
fact, most are well equipped to face
the world, to cope with expectations and threats, as well as being
particularly sensitive to interpretation and prediction of the feelings
and behaviour of other people.
But
because of their exceptionality they
do face special challenges, and so to help them a counsellor must
recognise and understand these and the effects they can have.