Gifted Intervention Specialist // Westlake City School District Founder // The Gifted Perspective LLC Westlake, Ohio, United States
Short Description: Explore effective practices for managing emotional dysregulation in gifted individuals. After discussing why emotional intensity occurs in gifted brains, we will learn practical interventions for navigating emotional dysregulation. This will include a focus on situations of intense emotions commonly seen in academic settings, including decision paralysis, catastrophic thinking and existential anxiety. Come away with strategies to add to your classroom.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of the session, participants will be able to synthesize neuroscientific and psychological research to develop an understanding of how giftedness and emotional intensity are related.
By the end of the session, participants will evaluate effective interventions to determine which will be most applicable to their own situations.
By the end of the session, participants will be able to apply understanding of giftedness and emotional intensity in order to determine which intervention to use in a given scenario.
