This resource examines the essential topics teachers, parents, and researchers need to know about the social and emotional development of gifted children. Instigated by a task force convened by the National Association for Gifted Children and written by leading scholars in the field of gifted children, the book includes chapters on peer pressure and social acceptance, resilience, delinquency, and underachievement. The book also summarizes several decades worth of research on special populations, including minority, learning-disabled, and gay and lesbian gifted students. Concise, comprehensive, and meticulously researched, The Social Emotional Development of Gifted Children is essential reading for those who wish to enable gifted students to develop their strengths and to position them to make the contributions of which they are capable.

A service publication of the National Association for Gifted Children.