Sidney M. Moon is a professor of Gifted Education and director of the Gifted Education Resource Institute at Purdue University. She has been active in the field of gifted education for more than 25 years as a parent, counselor, teacher, administrator, and researcher. In that time, she has contributed more than 60 books, articles, and chapters to the field. Her most recent book is a co-edited volume, The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: What Do We Know? Sidney is active in the National Association for Gifted Children where she currently serves on the board of directors, the publications committee, and the affective curriculum task force. Her research interests include talent develop-ment in the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and personal talent development.

About the Editors
Series Introduction - Sally M. Reis
Introduction to Social/Emotional Issues, Underachievement, and Counseling of Gifted and Talented Students - Sidney M. Moon
Part I: Social and Emotional Issues
1. The Social and Emotional Adjustment of Young, Intellectually-Gifted Children - Elyse Brauch Lehman, Carol J. Erdwins
2. Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Adjustment of Accelerated Students, Students in Gifted Classes, and Regular Students in Eighth Grade - Michael F. Sayler, William K. Brookshire
3. Depression and Suicidal Ideation Among Academically Gifted Adolescents - Jean A. Baker
4. High Ability Students Who Are Unpopular With Their Peers - Dewey G. Cornell
5. Predictors of Loneliness in the Gifted Adolescent - Charles F. Kaiser, David J. Berndt
6. Expanding Lazarus and Folkman¿s Paradigm to the Social and Emotional Adjustment of Gifted Children and Adolescents (SEAM) - Claudia J. Sowa, Kathleen M. May
7. A "Rag Quilt": Social Relationships Among Students in a Special High School - Laurence J. Coleman
8. Family Factors Associated With High Academic Competence in Former Head Start Children at Third Grade - Nancy M. Robinson, Robin Gaines Lanzi, Richard A. Weinberg, Sharon Landesman Ramey, and Craig T. Ramey
Part II: Underachievement
9. Academic Underachievement Among the Gifted: Students¿ Perceptions of Factors that Reverse the Pattern - Linda J. Emerick
10. A Comparison of Gifted Underachievers and Gifted High Achievers - Nicholas Colangelo, Barbara Kerr, Paula Christensen, and James Maxey
11. Reversing Underachievement: Creative Productivity as a Systematic Intervention - Susan Baum, Joseph S. Renzulli, and Thomas P. Hébert
12. Mentors for Gifted Underachieving Males: Developing Potential and Realizing Promise - Thomas P. Hébert, F. Richard Olenchak
13. The Underachievement of Gifted Students: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go? - Sally M. Reis, D. Betsy McCoach
Part III: Counseling
14. A Functional Model for Counseling Parents of Gifted Students - David F. Dettmann, Nicholas Colangelo
15. Counseling Gifted Adolescents: A Curriculum Model for Students, Parents, and Professionals - Thomas M. Buescher
16. Specialized Counseling Services for Gifted Youth and Their Families: A Needs Assessment - Sidney M. Moon, Kevin R. Kelly, and John F. Feldhusen
Index