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Models of Counseling Gifted Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults is a unique resource for practitioners and educators interested in counseling gifted and talented individuals. In this groundbreaking book, contributing authors steeped in the disciplines of both gifted education and counseling share in detail their approaches to counseling clients who are gifted and talented. This book is designed to help interested professionals, as well as those in preparation programs, conduct effective counseling techniques with highly able clients. Models of Counseling provides both novice and experienced helping professionals expert guidance in counseling gifted and talented individuals from a set of international contributors with years of experience counseling this special-needs population. The book contains introductory chapters that discuss the rationale for the book and take a critical historical look at the literature related to giftedness and counseling the gifted and talented. Each chapter devoted to the models includes the author's conception of giftedness and definition of counseling; the roles of the counselor, client, and counselor-client relationship; counseling techniques; and a case illustration.

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Sal Mendaglio is associate professor in the Division of Teacher Preparation and the Graduate Division of Educational Research, and research associate in the Centre for Gifted Education at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Prior to his current involvement in teacher education, Mendaglio taught counseling psychology in a graduate program for more than 20 years at the same institution. His primary interests are related to counseling gifted individuals of all ages. Current projects include gifted individuals' perceptions of counseling, influence of congregated settings on self-concept of gifted students, and Dabrowski's theory of positive disintegration. Mendaglio is a licensed psychologist with 30 years experience of counseling gifted individuals. He is chair of the Counseling and Guidance Division, National Association for Gifted Children. Jean Sunde Peterson, Ph.D, professor emerita, directed the School Counseling program at Purdue University before her retirement. She was a classroom or gifted education teacher for many years prior to graduate work in counselor education at the University of Iowa.

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