Leta Stetter Hollingworth was concerned with the unique adjustment problems that gifted children experience. In her writings we find insights into the nature of these problems, their impact at different levels of giftedness, and solutions that could be implemented today. Although in any one article she limited her discussion to five or six of these “perplexities,” as she called them, I found a total of 11 different issues among her writings on this topic. This article synthesizes Leta's thoughts on the psychosocial development of gifted children and presents her program for “emotional education” of the gifted.
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Linda Kreger Silverman (1990) studied this question.