Best practices in counseling the gifted in schools: What's really happening?

Gifted Child Quarterly

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 42-58

  Wood, Susannah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Best practices; Counseling; High school students; Humanities; Quantitative methods; School counseling; Visual and performing arts

Indexed keywords

EID: 71649097465     PISSN: 00169862     EISSN: 19349041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0016986209352681     Document Type: Article

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