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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. Many receive unneeded medication and inappropriate counseling as a result.

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.

0-910707-64-2
$32.95
hardcover / 304 pages

0-910707-67-7
$24.95
paperback / 304 pages

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