The "David's Jump": On the first positive change in the treatment of gifted children

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Abstract

In spite of the difficulty in predicting the time any treatment is to take, working with gifted children and their parents includes -in many cases- a substantial improvement in a comparatively short time in at least one aspect of the child's life. As this phenomenon has not been named in the psychological literature, it will be called: "David's Jump". This article presents 5 cases of such "jumps", all in children 5-8 years old, all happened within 8-10 weeks from the beginning of the treatment as reported by the parents or by the children themselves. The potential causes of the success reached are to be discussed; some of them might also be relevant to non-gifted children....
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)209-220
Number of pages12
JournalInternational Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences
Volume47
StatePublished - 2015

Keywords

  • “David’s Jump”
  • Gifted children
  • Treatment of young children

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