Talented Young Men Overcoming Tough Times: An Exploration of Resilience

by Thomas P. Hébert

Talented Young Men Overcoming Tough Times features the life stories of five gifted, high-achieving young men who overcame serious adversity in their lives. Their stories, captured through qualitative interviews, help us to better understand the factors that shaped their resilience and enabled them to overcome difficult challenges, including homelessness, poverty, bullying, dysfunctional families, and abuse. The five young men succeeded in overcoming their difficult circumstances in adolescence and met strong success in higher education, obtaining advanced graduate degrees and moving on to productive professional careers. The author presents the five life stories by dedicating an individual chapter to each young man featured in the book and concludes by synthesizing the consistent themes that are woven throughout the five inspirational life stories.

175 pages, Paperback

Published November 1, 2018

About the author

Thomas P. Hébert, Ph.D., is Professor of Gifted and Talented Education in the College of Education at the University of South Carolina. He has more than a decade of K-12 classroom experience working with gifted students and 25 years in higher education training graduate students and educators in gifted education. He has also conducted research for the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented (NRC/GT).

Reviews

[Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Talented Young Men Overcoming Tough Times is a book that should be required reading by people working with youth. It is well-organized book based on case studies that Dr. Thomas Herbert conducted. Dr. Hebert has written other books about gifted & talented students which I've read and enjoyed.

The gentleman who were interviewed had diverse backgrounds which we read in the case study presentations. For me this underscores the importance of connecting with all students and providing opportunities to explore opportunities.

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Patrick has learning disabilities. He "Christmas-treed" a test. That means he filled in the answers randomly, like placing Christmas bulbs on a tree.

I enjoyed the point describing the difference between being a survivor and being resilient.