The difference between an IQ test and a qualitative gifted/2e assessment! With Jennifer Harvey Sallin
Gifted Unleashed
As a psychologist, trainer, assessor, writer and advocate, Jennifer Harvey Sallin is dedicated to raising awareness about adult giftedness and twice-/multi-exceptionality (2e/me) and meaningfully supporting gifted/2e/me people in their personal and social development. She has specialized in supporting gifted adults for the last decade, and in 2015, she created InterGifted to allow gifted people to socially engage in meaningful ways and to personally develop in community. Learn more about why Jen here.
Jen has developed a holistic model of giftedness that is particularly useful for gifted adults in their giftedness (re)discovery, integration and personal and professional development. She uses this model in providing qualitative assessments to gifted adults, as well as in training professional therapists, coaches and other helping professionals to better support their gifted clients.
Jen has created an initiative for reconnecting with the Earth during this time of global & ecological crisis: I Heart Earth.
TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE:
- An IQ test measures something but it does not test for the full range of giftedness.
- There is no consensus to the answer of the question of what intelligence is.
- Gifted people usually are more intense than non gifted people. However, there is a distinction between complexity (giftedness) and intensity (OEs).
- Understanding your own giftedness profile and potential twice-exceptionalities helps you understand yourself better and helps supports you in your self developmental journey.
- Trauma can cause a developmental issues such as shutting down certain parts of your intelligence and playing up for example emotional intelligence in a role as a caretaker.
- Gifted people have gifted needs and if they don’t get met, life doesn’t feel fulfilled.
- For a qualitative assessment you need to be in a mental state where you are able to work on yourself in the realm of self-development.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
InterGifted.com and Jen’s model on giftedness, article on High, Exceptional & Profound Giftedness
Learn more and schedule an assessment with InterGifted
Jen’s Gifted Trauma Podcast and the previous episode with Jen at Unleash Monday
Courses for coaches and therapists at InterGifted
Different models on giftedness
Difference between OEs & giftedness
Would you like to work with me 1:1 as your gifted and 2e coach? Please send me an email at hello@giftedunleashed.com or find more information about my coaching offer on my website giftedunleashed.com/coaching
