Jean Sunde Peterson, Ph.D., professor and coordinator of school counselor preparation at Purdue University, was a classroom and gifted-education teacher for many years and was involved in teacher education prior to graduate work in counseling at The University of Iowa. A licensed mental health counselor with considerable experience counseling gifted youth and their families, she is an experienced conference presenter and conducts school-based workshops on social and emotional development of high-ability students, academic underachievement, cultural values as related to identification of and programming for gifted youth, bullying, parenting gifted children and adolescents, and prevention-oriented affective curriculum – most of these related to her practice-oriented research. She is author of Gifted at Risk: Poetic Profiles and The Essential Guide to Talking with Gifted Teens, as well as co-editor of Models of Counseling Gifted Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults, among over 80 publications. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors and formerly was Chair of the Counseling and Guidance Network of NAGC.
Speaker Topics:
- Social and emotional development related to giftedness
- Academic underachievement
- Giftednees as related to trauma, bullying, change, and loss
- Parenting gifted children and adolescents
- Affective curriculum
- Differentiating counseling for gifted youth
- Listening and responding skills for parents and teachers
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