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Voices in the Wilderness: Counselling Gifted Students in a Swedish Egalitarian Setting

Author(s) -

Roland S. Persson

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

international journal for the advancement of counselling

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.339

H-Index - 25

eISSN - 1573-3246

pISSN - 0165-0653

DOI - 10.1007/s10447-005-3185-3

Subject(s) - mentorship , industrial and organizational psychology , psychology , ideology , wilderness , pedagogy , qualitative research , work (physics) , social psychology , cross cultural psychology , applied psychology , medical education , sociology , social science , medicine , political science , politics , ecology , mechanical engineering , law , biology , engineering

An egalitarian setting; that is, a setting established on an ideological and cultural basis, in which individual differences traditionally is a sensitive and often problematic issue, the counseling of gifted individuals present a particular problem. Sweden provides the setting in which the current study was carried out. This qualitative case study focuses on how one highly gifted individual—a 27-year-old male—has experienced his school years and university training and how successful counselling for him was construed. The case is argued to be fairly typical, and it is also suggested that Received Mentorship might be the only way to counsel a gifted individual in a forbidding egalitarian setting. The article concludes by proposing a number of recommendations for counselors who work in similar settings

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