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Volume 41 Issue 1, January 2025
Special Issue: Strengths of the Heart: Building Resilience and Optimizing the Mental Health and Well-Being of Smart Kids
- Guest Editor: Steven I. Pfeiffer
Editorial
Free accessEditorialFirst published November 18, 2024pp. 3–8
Topical Discussion
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This brief paper reviews the articles in this special issue and summarizes contributions and provides suggestions for future research.Restricted accessOtherFirst published November 19, 2024pp. 9–12
Literature Review
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The study of mental health among gifted and accelerated learners has continued to evolve since the publication of a chapter focused on their subjective well-being. This article provides an updated review of mental health research focusing on gifted ...Restricted accessReview articleFirst published October 15, 2024pp. 13–31
Original Research Articles
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Social skills are critical behaviors that enable students to effectively navigate their social lives. Further, social skills function as protective factors against emotional behavior concerns and enable strong academic growth. Social skills can be ...Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published November 13, 2024pp. 32–56
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Traditionally, giftedness was perceived as a fixed trait, exclusively evaluated through cognitive testing. However, contemporary perspectives view it as a dynamic and socially constructed attribute reflected in many domains. As this paradigm-shift aligns ...Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published November 13, 2024pp. 57–75
Literature Review
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This article discusses concepts related to character strengths and positive youth development and how these ideas can be applied to improve outcomes among gifted young people. A theory with roots in public health, The Theory of Triadic Influence (TTI), is ...Restricted accessReview articleFirst published October 19, 2024pp. 76–91
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Resilience, or the ability to bounce back from hardship, has been studied extensively and identified as a protective factor against negative long-term physical and mental health outcomes. Most research has addressed the child’s resilience in the face of ...Restricted accessReview articleFirst published September 6, 2024pp. 92–111
Original Research Articles
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This study examines the unique challenges of raising gifted children, focusing on two child-related risk factors for parental stress: cognitive asynchrony and stress management abilities. Path analysis revealed that poor stress management in children is ...Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published November 13, 2024pp. 112–136
Literature Review
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This paper explores the social-emotional challenges faced by bright immigrant youth. We incorporate Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory to identify complexities across the model’s 5 layers. In the microsystem, cultural heritage conflicts with ...Restricted accessReview articleFirst published September 9, 2024pp. 137–157
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