Gifted children and adolescents through the lens of neuropsychology / Hanna David, Eva Gyarmathy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

David, Hanna, author.

Gyarmathy, Éva, author.

Series:

SpringerBriefs in education

SpringerBriefs in Education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gifted children--Psychology.

Gifted children.

Gifted children--Education.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (147 p.).

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2023]

Summary:

This book addresses a wide range of issues situated in the core of theoreticians and clinicians work in the field of giftedness. It gathers practical issues, relevant for the lives of many gifted children, adolescents and adults, from a neuropsychological point of view. By studying the basic questions in gifted education through a neuropsychological lens, this book aims to establish a uniform new way for the treatment of gifted children with social or emotional difficulties, learning disabilities, physical limitations, or psychological and psychiatric disorders. This book helps educators and mental-health professionals to obtain a deeper understanding of the neurological system and its role in learning. This includes memory, knowledge-processing, making connections, and the implications on the cognitive, emotional, and physical aspects all of which play major roles in the life of each gifted child and adolescent. By acquiring this new knowledge, more teachers, counsellors, psychologists and psychiatrists will be able to help individuals materialize their giftedness, while preserving their mental health and productivity.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

1 Supporting and Encouraging the Versatile Gifted Child and Adolescent

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Between Versatility and Multi-potentiality

1.3 Multi-potentiality: Does It Exist at All?

1.4 Multi-potentiality and Career Choosing: Is It Indeed a Main Problem of the Gifted?

1.5 Career Choosing from the Gender Point of View

1.6 The Contribution of Brain Sciences to the Multi-potentiality Issue of the Gifted

1.7 Brain Cognitive Functions and Athletics, Art, Music, Dance and Writing

1.8 Examples of Individuals Who "Have Made It" in More than One Area

1.9 School Related Issues: The Support of the System and the Support that Might Be Supplied by the System

1.10 Personal Summary

References

2 Understanding and Treating the Profoundly Gifted

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Exceptional Development as an Ability Development

2.3 Exceptional Giftedness as a Special Developmental Route

2.4 Physiological-Neurophysiological Sensitivity and Environmental Effects

2.5 Child Prodigies

2.6 The Savant Syndrome-A Frontotemporal Feature

2.7 Savant Syndrome and Giftedness

2.8 Developmental Profile

2.8.1 Provision for the Exceptionally Developed Gifted Child

2.8.2 A Case-Study

2.9 Closing Thoughts

3 "Do Not Turn the Light Off" for Gifted Children and Adolescents with Overexcitabilities

3.1 Introduction: Short History of Giftedness and Overexcitabilities

3.2 Overexcitabilities and the Gifted: Definitions, Literature Review and Main Theories

3.3 The Cultural Aspect of Overexcitabilities in General and Among the Gifted in Particular

3.4 The Gender Aspect of Overexcitabilities Among the Gifted

3.5 Overexcitabilities of the Gifted and Brain Sciences

3.5.1 Short History

3.5.2 Overexcitabilities, Intensities an Asynchronous Development and Giftedness

3.6 Giftedness, Overexcitabilities and Vox Populi

3.7 Brain Sciences as Intermediary Variable Connecting OE's and Giftedness

3.8 Overexcitabilities as a Tool for Giftedness Identification

3.9 Case Study: Helen

3.9.1 From Creativity to Social Rejection and Back to Self-materialization

3.9.2 Family Background and Early Childhood

3.9.3 Elementary School

3.9.4 Junior- and Senior High School

3.9.5 Grade 12-Helen Finds Her Place

3.9.6 Helen's First Professional Steps

3.10 Conclusion

4 Understanding Gifted Children with Stable and Unstable Executive Functions

4.1 Different Forms of Atypical Development

4.2 Executive Functions and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

4.3 An Evolutionary View

4.4 Relationship Between Executive Functions and Neurodiverse Talent

4.5 Executive Functions, Intelligence, and Creativity

4.6 Profiling of the Executive Functions

4.7 Control Profile Questionnaire

4.8 Training Possibilities

5 Neurodiversity and Supporting the Autistic-Gifted Child and Adolescent

5.1 Introduction

Notes:

5.2 Neurodiversity Is an Opportunity for Evolutionary Survival

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 05, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: David, Hanna Gifted Children and Adolescents Through the Lens of Neuropsychology

ISBN:

9783031227950

3031227956

OCLC:

1371754948

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