Gifted Support Group: Co-Regulation, Mentalization and Other Tools for Helping Gifted Children

Speaker: Dr. Vula Baliotis, Ph.D
Children are not just the sum of their external behaviors. They have a rich internal life that needs to be valued and understood. Gifted children tend to be particularly emotionally intense, perceptive, and sensitive, so they especially need help learning how to understand their internal experiences and to regulate the behaviors that stem from these experiences. Parents play a big role in gifted children’s ability to emotionally regulate—through emotionally attuning to and reflecting back to them that their internal experiences are both understandable and understood. This talk will discuss common internal experiences of children who are gifted, as well as how parents can help enhance their children’s emotional functioning.

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