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Great Potential Press, Inc.
Guiding Gifted Learners
Website: www.giftedbooks.com
Great Potential Press, P.O. Box 5057, Scottsdale, AZ 85261, USA
A Parent’s Guide to
Gifted Children
~Winner of Four Awards!~
Raising a gifted child is both a joy and a challenge, yet parents of gifted children have few resources for reliable parenting information. The four authors, who have decades of professional experience with gifted children and their families, provide practical guidance in areas such as:
Characteristics of gifted children
Peer relations
Sibling issues
Motivation & underachievement
Discipline issues
Intensity, perfectionism, & stress
Idealism, unhappiness, & depression
Educational planning
Parenting concerns
Finding professional help
“…destined to become the classic guide for parents of gifted children… provides much wisdom and new information.”
~Jan Davidson, Ph.D., Co-founder, Davidson Institute for Talent Development and co-author of Genius Denied: How to Stop Wasting Our Brightest Minds
“This book is akin to having a staff of specialists on-call in your bookcase…worth its weight in gold.”
~iParenting Media Awards’Reviewer
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Smart Boys: Talent, Manhood, and The Search for Meaning
Barbara A. Kerr, Ph.D. and Sanford J. Cohn, Ph.D.
Why do so many smart boys have problems with depression and anger in adolescence or later in life? Why do so many underachieve in school and fail to reach their full potential in the world of work? Why do so many of them struggle to succeed in their personal relationships?
This book includes suggestions for helping smart boys stay motivated, thought-provoking insights for gifted men, examinations of research and books, and interviews with men who have experienced crises or failures.
“…a useful and encouraging resource.”
--Booklist, American Library Association
“…a compelling look at a real problem in America.”
--The Midwest Book Review
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**Translations: Chinese (simplified), Korean, Dutch**
· Masculinity from boyhood to manhood
· Milestones and danger signs
· Violence and anger
· Relationships and family issues
· “Fat boys, sissies, and nerds”
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About the Authors
Barbara Kerr, Ph.D., is the Williamson Family Distinguished Professor of Counseling psychology at the University of Kansas. She is the author of the best-selling book, Smart Girls: A New Psychology of Girls, Women, and Giftedness. Dr. Cohn is associate professor in the Division of Curriculum and Instruction and the Division of Psychology in Education at Arizona State University. He founded the Center for Academic Precocity, a year-round set of learning opportunities for highly able students.
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Smart Girls (Revised Edition):
A New Psychology of Girls,
Women, and Giftedness
Barbara A. Kerr, Ph.D.
Over 80,000 copies sold
Why do talented, gifted girls so often fail to realize their potential as they reach adolescence and adulthood? This outstanding book explores this question and offers practical advice to parents and teachers on how to help gifted girls grow and succeed.
Dr. Kerr presents current research on gifted girls and summarizes biographies about eminent women. A very insightful book for both bright women and people involved with gifted young girls.
Features include:
• Characteristics of gifted children and adults
• Diagnoses most commonly given to gifted children and adults
• Traits of diagnoses incorrectly given to gifted children and adults
• Guidelines to avoid mislabeling gifted children
• Parent-child relationship problems
• Issues for gifted adults
• Advice for selecting a counselor or health care professional
“Barbara Kerr explores the common experiences of girls who grew into strong women....”
---Mary Pipher, Ph.D., Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
“I recommend Smart Girls...for everyone’s bookshelf.”
--- Roeper Review
About the Author
Barbara Kerr, Ph.D., is the Williamson Family Distinguished Professor of Counseling psychology at the University of Kansas. Dr. Kerr is a frequent keynote speaker at state and national conferences on gifted and talented children, and she is co-author of Smart Boys: Talent, Manhood, and the Search for Meaning.
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Korean
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Why Bright Kids Get Poor Grades
And What You Can Do About It (3rd Edition)
By Dr. Sylvia B. Rimm
Millions of gifted children are failing to reach their potential—something Dr. Sylvia Rimm calls underachievement syndrome. Drawing on both clinical research and years of experience counseling families, Dr. Rimm has developed a “Trifocal Model” to help ents and teachers work together to get students back on track. It is effective for a wide range of students, from preschool through college. Dr. Rimm’s practical, six-step program provides everything you need to know to turn a child or student’s underachievement into success.
“Dr. Rimm’s book provides…a rich array of suggestions…the kind of down-to-earth advice parents desperately seek when struggling to motivate their underachievers.”
-The Washington Post
“Mix of common sense, ethics, and commitment to kids earns Sylvia Rimm respect.”
-Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Dr. Rimm is a welcome voice of calm and reason—someone who offers practical advice, with almost immediate results. She’s a guardian angel for families who need a little or a lot of guidance.”
-Katie Couric, NBC Today show former long-time host
Previous
editions have sold more than 135,000 copies!
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Understanding Creativity
Jane Piirto, Ph.D.
In this highly readable yet comprehensive book, parents and teachers will find many suggestions for enhancing a child’s creativity.
Understanding Creativity offers advice on how to plan adventures, value work without “evaluation”, set a creative tone, and incorporate creativity values into one’s own family or classroom culture.
Readers will learn how to spot talent through a child’s behaviors and how to encourage practice. Real-life examples of artists, musicians, dancers, entrepreneurs, architects, and authors are included.
Jane Piirto, Ph.D. is Trustee’s Professor of Graduate Education at Ashland University in Ohio. She has written more than one hundred articles, poems, and short stories and has published eight books, including an award-winning novel. Dr. Piirto has been a consultant, speaker, and teacher in Europe, Asia, and South America. She has received two Individual Artist Fellowships and a Fulbright grant
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Leadership Development Program
2nd Edition: Leadership Skills Inventory and Leadership Manual
Frances A. Karnes, Ph.D. and Jane C. Chauvin, Ph.D.
Prepare teens and young adults to become the next great leaders!
Developed over the past seven years, the Leadership Skills Inventory assesses the nine key areas of leadership for elementary through college-aged students.
The Leadership Manual provides 125 exciting instructional activities designed to help young people enhance their leadership potential in each specific area and can be re-administered to measure leadership growth.
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“… a carefully thought-out and well-researched plan of action.”
---California Association for the Gifted
“… provides invaluable information for teachers, youth leaders, and others interested in strengthening leadership.”
---Cheryl Milam, Vice-Principal,
East Jefferson High School, Metairie, LA
Frances Karnes, Ph.D. is Director of the Leadership Studies Program and Director of The Center for Gifted Studies at The University of Southern Mississippi. She is the author of fifteen books and numerous articles. Dr. Jane Chauvin, Ph.D. is Professor of Education and Counseling at Loyola University in New Orleans, and she has served as national president of two organization and several editorial boards in the fields of education and counseling.
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A Love for Learning:
Motivation and the Gifted Child
Carol Strip Whitney, Ph.D, with Gretchen Hirsch
Spark the motivation in your gifted child or student! Keep them eager and excited at home and in the classroom!
Gifted children are susceptible to many de-motivating factors, which can lead to depression and academic underachievement. The authors present concepts and techniques to counteract those factors, allowing a child’s motivation to skyrocket.
Learn to sail the Four C’s of Motivation:
~Creating Challenge
~Creating Control
~Creating Commitment
~Creating Compassion
This new award-winning book, with a foreword by noted educator Dr. Joanne Rand Whitmore Schwartz, also includes additional resources, books and websites for parents and teachers.
“…brilliantly illuminates why gifted children lose motivation and how to rekindle that lost enthusiasm.”
--Shelley Ackerman Hirsch, J.D., Parent of gifted children and Board Member, Arizona Association for Gifted and Talented
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Triple Award
Winner!
As seen on
CNN Live and in the
NY Times!
Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults: ADHD, Bipolar, OCD, Asperger’s, Depression, and Other Disorders
Unnecessary medications are being given to gifted children. This is because our brightest, most creative children and adults are often being misdiagnosed with behavioral and emotional disorders such as ADHD, Oppositional-Defiant Disorder, Bipolar, OCD, or Asperger’s.
Physicians, psychologists, and counselors are unaware of characteristics of gifted children and adults that mimic pathological diagnoses. Six nationally prominent health care professionals describe ways parents and professionals can distinguish between gifted behaviors and pathological behaviors.
“These authors have brought to light a widespread and serious problem—the wasting of lives from the misdiagnosis of gifted children and adults and the inappropriate treatment that often follows.”
Jack G. Wiggins, Ph. D., Former President,
American Psychological Association
Features include:
• Characteristics of gifted children and adults
• Diagnoses most commonly given to gifted children and adults
• Traits of diagnoses incorrectly given to gifted children and adults
• Guidelines to avoid mislabeling gifted children
• Parent-child relationship problems
• Issues for gifted adults
• Advice for selecting a counselor or health care professional
The authors, James T. Webb, Ph.D., Edward R. Amend, Psy.D., Nadia E. Webb, Psy.D., Jean Goerss, M.D., Paul Beljan, Psy.D., and F. Rich Olenchak, Ph.D., include the President of the National Association for Gifted Children, two clinical neuropsychologists, two clinical psychologists, and a board-certified pediatrician formerly affiliated with The Mayo Clinic
**Translations: Korean**
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Being Smart about Gifted Children:
A Guidebook for Parents and Educators
Written for parents and educators – especially those who live and work with gifted/high-ability children – the authors describe ways to develop children’s natural abilities.
Introducing the “mystery “ and “mastery” models of gifted education, they invite controversy by challenging several commonly held assumptions. They then present practical strategies to help parents and educators identify and nurture the abilities of children with high ability.
This book answers the charges that special programs for gifted children are elitist. The authors demonstrate that it is simply appropriate to provide educational experiences that each child needs at a particular time
Features include:
- “Mystery” and “Mastery” models
- Identification procedures
- Learning issues
- Programming options
- Social and behavioral concerns
- Teacher development processes
- Future trends
- Parenting strategies
Gifted Studies and Associate Professor of Special Education, City University of New York. Joanne Foster, Ed.D. teaches Educational Psychology as well as Gifted Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, and is the Gifted Education CoDona Matthews, Ph.D. is Director of the Hunter College Center for nsultant for a large school board in Toronto. Both have teaching experience, were coordinators of programs for gifted children, and have written and spoken extensively throughout Canada and the U.S.
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Helping Gifted Children Soar:
A Practical Guide for Parents
and Teachers
Carol Strip, Ph.D. with Gretchen Hirsch
2001 Glyph Award Winner—Best Education Book
This user-friendly guidebook educates parents and teachers about important gifted issues such as working together, evaluating classroom programs, forming parent support groups, choosing appropriate curriculum, meeting social and emotional needs, surviving the ups and downs, and much more!
The information and useful advice provided make this book an ideal resource for those just starting out in the gifted field and those who are seasoned veterans.
· Gifted minority and gifted disabled issues
· Strategies for parenting and teaching
· Social and emotional concerns
· Various educational options
· A substantial question and answer section
· An in-depth, easy to reference appendix
“…(a) solid, practical book.”
--Library Journal
“…an authoritative volume no educator—professional or otherwise—should be without.”
–Fearless Reviews
About the Authors
Dr. Carol Strip is a Gifted Education Specialist in Ohio and an Adjunct Professor at The Ohio State University. She has more than 30 years of gifted teaching experience and has served as a gifted workshop leader for school districts throughout the country. Gretchen Hirsch is President of The Stevens/St. John Company in Ohio, where she produces communications for clients in finance, healthcare, and education
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Korean
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Cradles of Eminence
(2nd Edition):
Childhoods of more than 700 famous men and women
The 1964 provocative classic by Victor and Mildred Goertzel is now back and printed here in its entirety, plus updated for the 21st Century to include information from Three Hundred Eminent Personalities (1978) and new biographies published in the last six years.
Do prominent individuals share common childhood experiences? What factors in childhood contribute to a prolific adulthood?
Among the fascinating similarities of these eminent personalities are that most of them:
□ grew up in homes with a strong love of learning
□ had strong, opinionated, pushy parents
□ grew up feeling different from others
□ disliked school, but were self-directed learners
□ had dysfunctional or unhappy homes
□ showed characteristics of giftedness
□ had intense curiosity, idealistic desires to improve a
situation, and a need to impact on the world around them
Victor Goertzel, a psychologist specializing in psychotherapy, was president of the National Association for Gifted Children. Mildred George Goertzel directed a school for emotionally disturbed children. Ted George Goertzel is a professor and former chairperson in the sociology department at Rutgers University in Camden, NJ. Ariel Hansen is a recent graduate of Haverford College and works in the field of science journalism
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TEEN SUCCESS! (2nd Edition)
Ideas to Move Your Mind
By Beatrice J. Elyé
This new edition will guide teenagers toward success with updated ideas and suggestions that today's teens can relate to. Perfect for at home or in the classroom, this conversational book can help give your teenager practical life skills and enlightened insights. Chapter topics include decision making, speed reading, building confidence, time management, communication skills, and much more!
“An admirable book, filled with ideas, quotes, and suggestions to get minds working and jump-start lives.”
~The Book Reader
“…one of those rare blends of personal power, sound advice, and simple wisdom that gives us the tools to live life better.”
~Eric Faber, former student, Manager of Budget, USPS
“Broad scope of topics...very user friendly...each chapter stands alone...inspirational quotations...a good resource for teens…”
~Voice of Youth Advocates Journal
About the Author:
Bea Elyé was a high school teacher for 25 years, and received international recognition and awards for her creative and unusual teaching style. In her final two years of teaching, she was asked to develop a program for talented and gifted students. Her program had a positive effect on the participants, who became known as The Monday Box Group. She wrote Teen Success: Ideas to Move Your Mind so that she could share her unique approach with others
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