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Counseling, Multiple Exceptionality, and Psychological Issues

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Author	Article
Edward R. Amend	Misdiagnosis of Asperger's Disorder in gifted youth: An addendum to Mis-Diagnoses and dual diagnosis of gifted children by James Webb, Ph.D. Copyright © 2003 SENG.
Susan M. Baum, F. Richard Olenchak and Steven V. Owen	Gifted Students with Attention Deficits: Fact and/or Fiction? Or, Can We See the Forest for the Trees? From Gifted Child Quarterly. 1998 42(2) 96-104. Reprinted with permission.
J'Anne Ellsworth	Adolescence and gifted: Addressing existential dread Reprinted with permission of the author (email).
Jean Goerss, M.D. Richard Clouse, M.D. James Webb, Ph.D.	Health Care Providers Know Little About Gifted Children From National Psychologist. 16(2), 12. Reprinted with permission.
Jerald Grobman	Underachievement in Exceptionally Gifted Adolescents and Young Adults: A Psychiatrist’s View From The Journal of Secondary Gifted Education. 2006 17(4) 199–210. Reprinted with permission from Prufrock Press.
Thomas P. Hébert and Kristie L. Speirs Neumeister	Fostering the social and emotional development of gifted children through guided viewing of film From Roeper Review. 2002 Fall 25(1) 17-21. Reprinted with permission.
Thomas P. Hébert	Using biography to counsel gifted young men From the Journal of Secondary Gifted Education. 1995 6(3) 208-19. Reprinted with permission from Prufrock Press.
Thomas P. Hébert and Richard Kent	Nurturing social and emotional development in gifted teenagers through young adult literature From Roeper Review. 2000 Apr 22(3) 167-71. Reprinted with permission.
P. Susan Jackson	Bright star -- black sky: A phenomenological study of depression as a window into the psyche of the gifted adolescent From Roeper Review. 1998 Feb 20(3) 215-221. Reprinted with permission.
P. Susan Jackson and Jean Peterson	Depressive disorder in highly gifted adolescents From The Journal of Secondary Gifted Education. 2004 14(3) 175–186. Reprinted with permission from Prufrock Press.
Felice Kaufmann, M. Layne Kalbfleisch and F. Xavier Castellanos	Attention deficit disorders and gifted students: What do we really know? This document has been reproduced with the permission of The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. The work reported herein was supported under the Educational Research and Development Centers Program, PR/Award Number R206R000001, as administered by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. The findings and opinions expressed in this report do not reflect the position or policies of the Institute of Education Sciences or the U.S. Department of Education.
Sharon Lind	Before referring a gifted child for ADD/ADHD evaluation Copyright © 1996 Sharon Lind Reprinted with the permission of the author.
Andrew S. Mahoney	The Gifted Identity Formation Model: In search of the gifted identity, from abstract concept to workable counseling constructs From Roeper Review. 20(3) 222-226. Reprinted with permission.
Betty Maxwell	Diagnosis Questions From Highly Gifted Children: A Publication of the Hollingworth Center for Highly Gifted Children. 1998 Spring XII(1). Reprinted with permission.
Maureen Neihart	The impact of giftedness on psychological well-being From Roeper Review. Sep 1999 22(1). Reprinted with permission.
SENG Update	See also these articles archived from SENG's monthly email newsletter: ADHD by Steven Pfeiffer At-risk gifted by Therese Clifford Mental health care by Nadia Webb Misdiagnosis by Ruth Carlstrom Biblio and film therapy by Edward R. Amend Finding a therapist for your child by Therese Clifford
Jean Strop and David Goldman	The affective side: Emotional issues of twice exceptional students From Understanding Our Gifted. 2002 Winter 28-29. Reprinted with permission, Open Space Communications (800-494-6178).
Meredith Warshaw	The challenge of the highly gifted/special needs child Reprinted with permission from www.uniquelygifted.org.
James T. Webb	Existential depression in gifted individuals Reproduced by permission of the Great Potential Press.
James T. Webb and Diane Latimer	ADHD and children who are gifted An ERIC Digest from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education.
James T. Webb	Misdiagnosis and dual diagnosis of gifted children Originally published in M. Neihart, Chair, Symposium on Cutting Edge Minds--What it Means to be Exceptional, paper presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., August 7, 2000. Reproduced by permission of Great Potential Press.
Nadia Webb and Antara Dietrich	Gifted and learning disabled: A neuropsychologist’s perspective From Gifted Education Communicator. 2005 36(3&4). Reprinted with permission.