Power up! Social-emotional health for outlier gifted and talented children through the lens of positive psychology

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This presentation consists of two parts. The first part is to bring awareness around the complexity of outlier gifted and talented children. Who are outlier gifted and talented children and what makes them qualitatively different from other gifted and talented children? The second part involves social-emotional health considerations for complex outlier gifted and talented children. Increasing attention is now being paid to the importance of social-emotional health in nurturing gifted and talented children at school and at home, yet positive psychology is still rarely applied to social-emotional health in education or at home. Learn how positive psychology powers up what we currently know about the importance of social-emotional health.