Triple Award-Winner! Unnecessary medications are being given to gifted children. This book is your guide to help prevent this.
Our brightest, most creative children and adults are often being misdiagnosed with behavioral and emotional disorders such as ADHD, Oppositional-Defiant Disorder, Bipolar, OCD, or Asperger’s. Many receive unneeded medication and inappropriate counseling as a result.
Physicians, psychologists, and counselors are unaware of characteristics of gifted children and adults that mimic pathological diagnoses. Six nationally prominent health care professionals describe ways parents and professionals can distinguish between gifted behaviors and pathological behaviors.
Features Include: -Written for parents and professionals -Characteristics of gifted children and adults -Diagnoses most commonly given to gifted children and adults -Traits of diagnoses incorrectly given to gifted children and adults -Parent-child relationship problems -Issues for gifted adults -Advice for selecting a counselor or health care professional
Translations: This book has been translated into Korean (Hakjisa Publishing).
Fifty percent of the royalties go directly to Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG), a non-profit organization dedicated to gifted children and adults. You can find more information about SENG at www.sengifted.org.
Length: 308 pages.
ISBN 10 digit: 0-910707-64-2 ISBN 13 digit: 978-0-910707-64-0
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Price: $32.95
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