Handbook of Giftedness in Children: Psychoeducational Theory, Research, and Best Practices
暫譯: 天才兒童手冊:心理教育理論、研究與最佳實踐

Pfeiffer, Steven I.

  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2018-12-20
  • 售價: $14,980
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$14,231
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 374
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3030083454
  • ISBN-13: 9783030083458
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商品描述

Most leaders in American society recognize that gifted children are among our most precious natural resources. Following the Soviet Union's launch of the Sputnik in the 1960s, our country focused resources on identifying and nurturing America's intellectually gifted. Less than a decade later, however, America's gifted and talented have become an almost neglected special-needs population - for a variety of socio-cultural, political, and economic reasons. Even American psychology has given little attention to the unmet and under-met needs of America's most promising youth.

The gifted population comprise roughly 5% to 20% of the general population of school-age children - depending on which definition of gifted and talented or which set of diagnostic criteria are applied. The gifted are a significant population, based on their numbers and on their potential to make a real difference in our nation's future.

A recent survey of international experts in the gifted field published in Professional Psychology: Research & Practice (Pfeiffer, 2001) identified key areas in which professional psychology can play a critically important role in serving the gifted. The article identified specific practice implications for professional psychology, including:

  • Assuming a leadership role in the screening and identification of gifted children.
  • Serving as consultants in promoting talent development in the schools and in work with families of the gifted.
  • Providing counseling services to the gifted, as well as their parents, who are in need of psychotherapeutic intervention.

The purpose of the proposed volume is to provide psychologists, graduate students, and other allied professionals who serve children with a definitive resource on how best to accomplish these three practice implications. The handbook is intended as a scholarly resource for practitioners and trainers in psychology and closely related human service fields who work with children, adolescents, and families. The handbook is also intended for graduate students specializing in the fields of school psychology, clinical child psychology, social work, mental health counseling, child psychiatry, and marriage and family therapy. Chapters will include a brief discussion of relevant theory and a cogent discussion of research, with emphasis on the application of empirical research to guide best practices. Each chapter will be written by an individual or individuals who are imminently qualified to discuss the particular topic area being addressed. Moreover, each chapter author(s) will be asked to take an empirical approach toward his or her scholarly discussion and avoid presenting only one theoretically-biased point of view. The goal is to provide the reader with a definitive and timely resource on the literature relevant to meeting the psychoeducational and psychological needs of the gifted and their families.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

大多數美國社會的領導者認識到,天才兒童是我們最珍貴的自然資源之一。在1960年代蘇聯發射斯普特尼克(Sputnik)之後,我們國家將資源集中在識別和培養美國的智力天才上。然而,不到十年後,美國的天才和優秀人才卻成為一個幾乎被忽視的特殊需求群體,這是由於各種社會文化、政治和經濟原因。即使是美國心理學也對美國最有前途的青少年未滿足和不足的需求關注不多。

天才人口大約佔學齡兒童總人口的5%到20%——這取決於所採用的天才和優秀人才的定義或診斷標準。根據其數量和對我們國家未來的潛在影響,天才群體是一個重要的人口。

最近在《專業心理學:研究與實踐》(Pfeiffer, 2001)上發表的一項針對國際天才領域專家的調查,確定了專業心理學在服務天才方面可以發揮關鍵作用的主要領域。該文章確定了專業心理學的具體實踐意涵,包括:

- 在篩選和識別天才兒童方面擔任領導角色。
- 作為顧問,促進學校的才能發展以及與天才家庭的合作。
- 為需要心理治療介入的天才及其父母提供諮詢服務。

本書提案的目的是為心理學家、研究生和其他服務兒童的相關專業人士提供一個明確的資源,以最佳方式實現這三個實踐意涵。該手冊旨在成為心理學及相關人類服務領域的從業者和培訓者的學術資源,這些人員與兒童、青少年和家庭合作。該手冊也適用於專攻學校心理學、臨床兒童心理學、社會工作、心理健康諮詢、兒童精神病學和婚姻家庭治療的研究生。各章將包括相關理論的簡要討論和對研究的有力討論,重點在於將實證研究應用於指導最佳實踐。每章將由一位或多位具備充分資格的個人撰寫,討論所涉及的特定主題。此外,每位章節作者將被要求採取實證方法進行學術討論,避免僅呈現一種理論偏見的觀點。目標是為讀者提供一個明確且及時的資源,涵蓋滿足天才及其家庭的心理教育和心理需求的相關文獻。

作者簡介

Steven I. Pfeiffer, Ph.D., is a Professor at Florida State University. Previously, he was a Professor at Duke University, where he served as Executive Director of the Duke University Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP). Dr. Pfeiffer is an internationally recognized expert in the gifted field. According to Alan Kaufman, Dr. Pfeiffer is "among a small group of the world's leading experts in the gifted field. He is an unusually articulate spokesperson on the varied topics that comprise the broad domain of gifted education and gifted assessment." Dr. Pfeiffer twice testified at the White House before the National Task Force on Health Care Reform. In 2012, he was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the National Institute of Education in Singapore. He has an active clinical practice and conducts workshops in the United States and internationally. Dr. Pfeiffer is lead author of the Gifted Rating Scales (Pearson Assessment, 2003), the most widely used rating scale in gifted identification. His most recent books include, Serving the Gifted (Routledge, 2013); Essentials of Gifted Assessment (Wiley, 2015); and The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children (Prufrock Press, 2015), co-edited with Maureen Neihart and Tracy Cross. He is Editor-in-Chief of the APA Handbook of Giftedness and Talent (Washington, DC: APA Books; in press).

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

史蒂芬·I·派費爾(Steven I. Pfeiffer, Ph.D.)是佛羅里達州立大學的教授。之前,他曾擔任杜克大學的教授,並擔任杜克大學人才識別計畫(Duke TIP)的執行主任。派費爾博士是國際公認的天才教育領域專家。根據艾倫·考夫曼(Alan Kaufman)的說法,派費爾博士「是全球天才教育領域少數幾位領先專家的其中之一。他在涵蓋天才教育和天才評估的廣泛主題上,表達能力異常出色。」派費爾博士曾兩次在白宮向全國醫療改革工作小組作證。2012年,他在新加坡國立教育研究院擔任傑出訪問學者。他擁有活躍的臨床實踐,並在美國及國際上舉辦工作坊。派費爾博士是《天才評分量表》(Gifted Rating Scales,Pearson Assessment,2003)的主要作者,該量表是天才識別中使用最廣泛的評分工具。他最近的著作包括《服務天才》(Serving the Gifted,Routledge,2013)、《天才評估要素》(Essentials of Gifted Assessment,Wiley,2015)以及與莫琳·奈哈特(Maureen Neihart)和特雷西·克羅斯(Tracy Cross)共同編輯的《天才兒童的社會與情感發展》(The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children,Prufrock Press,2015)。他是《APA天才與才能手冊》(APA Handbook of Giftedness and Talent,華盛頓特區:APA Books;即將出版)的主編。