Models of Counseling Gifted Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults is a unique resource for practitioners and educators interested in counseling gifted and talented individuals. In this groundbreaking book, contributing authors steeped in the disciplines of both gifted education and counseling share in detail their approaches to counseling clients who are gifted and talented. This book is designed to help interested professionals, as well as those in preparation programs, conduct effective counseling techniques with highly able clients. Models of Counseling provides both novice and experienced helping professionals expert guidance in counseling gifted and talented individuals from a set of international contributors with years of experience counseling this special-needs population. The book contains introductory chapters that discuss the rationale for the book and take a critical historical look at the literature related to giftedness and counseling the gifted and talented. Each chapter devoted to the models includes the author's conception of giftedness and definition of counseling; the roles of the counselor, client, and counselor-client relationship; counseling techniques; and a case illustration.