This graduate-level textbook provides a framework for understanding giftedness, and considers the counseling process and strategies for counseling in the schools. Chapters include: "The Gifted Individual" (Linda Kreger Silverman); "The Quest for Meaning: Counseling Issues with Gifted Children and Adolescents" (Deirdre V. Lovecky); "A Developmental Model for Counseling the Gifted" (L. Silverman); "Techniques for Preventive Counseling" (L. Silverman); "Group Counseling with Gifted Students" (Nicholas Colangelo and Jean Sunde Peterson); "Counseling Gifted Learning Disabled: Individual and Group Counseling Techniques" (Sal Mendaglio); "Counseling Families" (L. Silverman); "The Roles of Educational Personnel in Counseling the Gifted" (Joyce VanTassel-Baska and Lee Baska); "Academic Counseling for the Gifted" (Joyce VanTassel-Baska); "Career Counseling" (L. Silverman); "Assessment Tools for Counselors" (John F. Feldhusen et al.); "Gifted Students at Risk" (Ken Seeley); "Multicultural Counseling" (Kathy Evans); and "Social Development, Leadership, and Gender Issues" (L. Silverman). Appendices provide: an annotated resource guide to locating counseling and assessment services; a bibliography for parents; a list of children's literature featuring children who are gifted; biographies for students who are gifted; and annotated descriptions of the major periodicals in the field. (Each chapter contains references.) (SW)