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. Hebert 12. Mentors for Gifted Underachieving Males: Developing Potential and Realizing Promise - Thomas P. Hebert, 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