Perfectionism and Gifted Children

During her 35 year career, Callard-Szulgit has found perfectionism to be the #1 social-emotional trait of gifted children. She has helped hundreds of students recover from its harmful effects. Perfectionism and Gifted Children provides insight into perfectionism, discussing why so many gifted children are perfectionists while providing common sense solutions to this problem. This book will be an immense help to parents and teachers of gifted children and gifted children themselves.

Rosemary Callard-Szulgit, EdD is currently associated with the State University of New York, College at Brockport, where her courses on Teaching the Gifted K-12, Teaching Writing K-12, and Teaching Reading K-12, have become highly respected. Dr. Callard-Szulgit has a staff development consulting business, Partners for Excellence, in Rochester, NY and Phoenix, AZ. She is the former Facilitator for Gifted and Talented, K-8, in the Webster Central School District, a suburb of Rochester, NY. She continues to have articles published dealing with the education of gifted children.