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- Title
When Emotional Intensity and Cognitive Rigidity Collide: What Can Counselors and Teachers Do?
- Authors
Zakreski, Matthew J.
- Abstract
Gifted individuals have unique social and emotional needs that often manifest as challenging interpersonal behavior. Chief among these needs are the fact that gifted students tend to be quite emotionally intense and that they tend to be quite cognitively rigid. Emotional intensity is defined as having stronger, more frequent, more complex, and more lasting emotional responses than would be considered typical. Cognitive rigidity is defined as difficulty in changing mental sets. The intersection of these two traits in the gifted population makes interventions challenging, but the impact of these traits can affect a person’s personal, social, and emotional growth. There are therapeutic techniques that can allow counselors, teachers, parents, and psychologists to positively impact these limiting traits. This article examines relevant literature on the subjects above, provides a case example from the author’s mental health practice, and explores potential interventions.
- Subjects
GIFTED children -- Psychology; EDUCATION of gifted children; RIGIDITY (Psychology); GIFTED children; PSYCHOSOCIAL development theory; COGNITIVE development; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Gifted Child Today, 2018, Vol 41, Issue 4, p208
- ISSN
1076-2175
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1076217518786984