Like other kids their age, highly capable teens experience developmental challenges. They're forging identity, exploring relationships, coping with stress, and finding direction-all difficult tasks, no matter how bright you are. The guided discussions in this book provide gifted teens with opportunities to "just talk" with peers who can relate and an adult who cares, offering face-to-face interaction that is more important than ever in a time when many teens rely heavily on digital communication. With new conversation topics, additional discussion questions, and a revised introduction, Get Gifted Students Talking addresses the issues faced by gifted students in middle school and high school. Honed through hundreds of small-group sessions by an expert in gifted development, these discussions will help you help gifted teens: Strengthen their social and emotional development, Build communication skills, Manage stress, anxiety, and other strong feelings, Practice problem-solving and goal setting, Learn what giftedness means to them, Know they are not alone, Explore their relationships with family members, teachers, and friends, Consider complex topics such as perfectionism, resilience, accepting others, and living online, Discuss issues of dating, sexuality gender roles, and more, Face the future with confidence, Each discussion session is clear, self-contained, and step-by-step, and many include printable handouts. Introductory materials prepare group leaders of all experience levels to feel confident as facilitators. Recommended for use in schools, summer institutes, at home, and beyond, to reach all gifted teenagers-intellectually bright or exceptionally talented, in middle school or high school, high achieving or underachieving. These students all need a safe, supportive place to simply be themselves.

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