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- Volume 11
- Issue 4
- Publication Date: Summer 2000
Perfectionism: Its Manifestations and Classroom-Based Interventions
Stephanie A. Nugent
Perfectionism, the compulsive striving for unrealistic and unattainable goals, is not limited to gifted individuals. However, research shows that gifted children and adults are at least as susceptible to perfectionistic tendencies as the population at large. Due to their heightened sensitivity, awareness, and abilities, gifted children require affective counseling in order to learn coping skills to help them break the cycle of disabling perfectionism. Teachers of the gifted may use various techniques with which to address these affective needs. Bibliotherapy, group therapeutic discussion, and art activities are all methods through which the negative manifestations of perfectionism—eating disorders, depression, underachievement, substance abuse, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, and suicide—may be addressed.
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