“If You're So Smart, Why Do You Need Counseling?”
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Deborah Ruf
Deborah Ruf, Ph.D., the founder of TalentIgniter, is an international authority in gifted assessment, test interpretation, and guidance for the gifted. Having been a parent, teacher and administrator in elementary through graduate education, she writes and speaks about school issues and social and emotional adjustment of gifted children. She is co-author of the book Successfully Parenting the Gifted Child and author of Losing Our Minds: Gifted Children Left Behind. See the Ruf Estimates of Levels of Gifted Online Assessment on her site. By Deborah Ruf
Published on 10/15/2006
A reasonably clear perception of self appears to be one prerequisite to
advanced emotional development. For people who are outside the norm in
any significant way, as gifted people are, obtaining accurate feedback
about their abilities, strengths, weaknesses, and the acceptability of
their personality characteristics is difficult.