Gifted education has been recognised as a fractured field that can be categorised using varying paradigmatic approaches. Over the past thirty years, Gagne's Differentiated Model of Giftedness and Talents (DMGT) has maintained a strong influence in Australia, which means that the paradigmatic assumptions that are present in this model have shaped…

Problems experienced by gifted children are described and guidance approaches to help them adjust to their peers and to their own expectations are reviewed. The Differential Guidance for Gifted Model is reviewed which considers categories of giftedness, socioeconomic status, value orientation, and developmental stage/grade level. (CL)

Four leisure counseling approaches are presented: leisure counseling as a selected life-style process; leisure lack as a force to be considered in the guidance enabling process; leisure counseling as an opportunity to minimize the frequency of default leisure activities in the triangulation leisure counseling model; and leisure counseling as a…