Healthcare professionals
No Radar for Giftedness: What Healthcare Professionals Can Recognize
Giftedness in adults cannot be identified by behavior alone. This article shows how healthcare professionals can recognize patterns without labeling, and why recognition is crucial for effective guidance.
13 February 2026
Overexcitabilities reconsidered: what intensity does and does not say about giftedness
Intense behavior is often seen as a sign of giftedness. This article explains why that assumption is too simplistic and how care professionals can adopt a more nuanced view of behavior, needs, and appropriate support.
16 January 2026
Giftedness and Psychoeducation: Why Insight Makes All the Difference
Why does a fast-thinking client stumble over simple tasks? Why does a child feel “different” without knowing why? This blog explores how psychoeducation helps make sense of giftedness—turning confusion into self-understanding— and what care professionals can truly contribute in that process.
19 December 2025
Giftedness and Neurodivergence: Why Words Matter
The terms neurodiversity and neurodivergence are often used interchangeably. This article explores their meaning and explains why giftedness overlaps with neurodivergence — but doesn’t automatically belong under it.
21 November 2025
Twice Exceptional: When Giftedness and Special Needs Intersect
Twice-exceptional clients—those who are both gifted and have a learning or developmental disorder—require a different kind of care. This blog helps you better understand their behavior and shows how a strengths-based approach can foster growth. A must-read for every care professional.
24 October 2025
From Potential to Performance: How Wijs op Weg Helps Underachieving Young People Thrive Again
Underachievement among gifted young people is less common than often assumed, yet it poses a serious risk. Discover how the Wijs op Weg program, with its four modules, helps professionals strengthen motivation, self-image, and performance in lasting ways.
26 September 2025
Working memory and willpower aren’t enough: metacognition and self-regulation in gifted students
Gifted students don’t always perform well on their own. Metacognition, self-regulation, and self-directed learning are essential, but they don’t develop automatically. Targeted support helps them build effective learning strategies, motivation, and confidence for long-term success.
29 August 2025
Between Potential and Performance: What Helps Underachieving Gifted Adolescents?
Gifted adolescents who underachieve pose a challenge in clinical practice. This blog explores the root causes behind their loss of motivation and academic withdrawal, offering professionals concrete insights and tools. Not grades, but meaning, autonomy, and connection are the starting points for lasting change.
20 June 2025
Between Head and Heart: Emotional Intelligence in the Gifted
Gifted clients often have a rich emotional life, but that does not automatically mean their emotional intelligence is equally well developed. In this blog, you will discover how, as a healthcare professional, you can recognize, strengthen, and support emotional skills in practice.
23 May 2025
Perfectionism in gifted clients: Challenge or obstacle?
Perfectionism is often regarded as a characteristic of giftedness, particularly when examining a clinical population. For psychologists and therapists working with this group, it is essential not only to recognize perfectionism but also to understand how it manifests and which interventions are effective.
25 April 2025
Smart but clumsy: The hidden impact of DCD on gifted children
Gifted children with DCD may have sharp minds but face motor challenges, which can lead to frustration, avoidance, and misdiagnoses. Their cognitive strengths often mask these difficulties, making DCD harder to detect. Tailored support, understanding, and leveraging their talents are key to building confidence and promoting healthy development.
28 March 2025
Is giftedness characterized by asynchronous development?
Gifted children do not always develop synchronously in cognitive, emotional, and social areas. This is not inherently a problem but can pose challenges if the environment does not meet their needs. Proper support and social interaction with like-minded peers are essential.
28 February 2025
High sensitivity in gifted individuals: opportunities and challenges for care professionals
High sensitivity plays an important role in some gifted individuals. This article highlights their unique sensitivities, both positive and negative, and offers practical insights for care professionals. Discover how targeted strategies can harness this strength while preventing overstimulation.
31 January 2025
30 September 2024
30 April 2024
Task initiation
Lack of inspiration, time constraints, a busy family... The list of excuses is extensive. However, when procrastination becomes a frequent occurrence rather than an exception, it may indicate a deficiency in task initiation development.
31 January 2024
22 December 2023
22 December 2023
Unlocking Potential: Tailoring Education in Gifted Homeschooling
Each year, the number of children opting for individual homeschooling continues to rise – including a number of gifted children. For some parents, this is a conscious lifestyle choice. Others, however, feel compelled to take this step due to repeated lack of recognition of their child's giftedness.
31 January 2023
19 December 2022
16 December 2022
