To Be a Gifted Adolescent
Adolescence is a period in everybody’s life that is usually referred to as “time that everybody must go through” or “parents’ hell”. Transition between childhood and adulthood is indeed of great importance in everybody’s life, but it is usually accompanied with a variety of questions, problems, d...
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| Language: | English |
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ORDT: Organization for Research Development and Training
2018-05-01
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| Series: | Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences |
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| Online Access: | https://journalofinterdisciplinarysciences.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2-To-Be-a-Gifted-Adolescent.pdf |
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| Summary: | Adolescence is a period in everybody’s life that is usually referred to as “time that
everybody must go through” or “parents’ hell”. Transition between childhood and adulthood is
indeed of great importance in everybody’s life, but it is usually accompanied with a variety of
questions, problems, dilemmas and a constant need to choose among many possibilities, which adds a
lot of tension to the adolescent’s life and that of his or her family. Being gifted is also somewhat
conflictual as it means – in most cases – a high cognitive level with somewhat lesser emotional
development, along with many intellectual and educational needs that are hard to fulfil, and also
usually difficult in finding peers with similar interests, level of thinking and verbal and/or logicalmathematical abilities. As a result, parents of gifted adolescents have to overcome the problems every
parent of a teenager faces, and in addition – those caused by their children’s giftedness. This work will
open a window to many such issues not answered by education or mental health professionals. The
problems presented in this part of my work are: Problems typical to adolescents; and Problems typical
to the gifted with a special focus on their variations during adolescence. The second part of this article
will deal with problems of gifted adolescents, namely – problems that usually do not occur among the
non-gifted. In addition, I am to offer some effective ways and strategies that might help parents to deal
with the challenge of raising a gifted adolescent.
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| ISSN: | 2594-3405 |