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'The most significant study of talent development to appear ... [in] almost a decade ... It is must reading for anyone wanting to grasp how the promise of youth converts to the triumphs of maturity.' Contemporary Psychology
'The result of an extensive five-year study, this pioneering book examines a group of gifted teenagers in an effort to understand the loss of motivation and diminution of talent that takes place during this troublesome period.' The Readers' Catalog Bulletin
'Written in a comprehensible reading style, the book is well organized with clear chapter summaries.' Choice
Book Description
Talented Teenagers is a fascinating and absorbing examination of what makes adolescents tick: what roles personality traits, family interactions, education, and the social environment play in a young person's motivation to develop his or her talent. Vivid descriptions in the students' own words bring the material to life. Parents, teachers, psychologists, and counselors will find in these pages concrete information abou the conditions that foster the cultivation of mental abilities in adolescence, for both the gifted and the average student.
Talented Teenagers: The Roots of Success and Failure (Cambridge Studies in Social & Emotional Development),Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,Kevin Rathunde,Samuel Whalen,Cambridge University Press,0521415780,Adolescent Psychology,Developmental - Child,Education,Environment and teenagers,Family / Parenting / Childbirth,General,Gifted teenagers,Intelligence,Longitudinal studies,Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent,Child & developmental psychology,Psychology & Psychiatry / Child Development
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