HIGH ABILITIES/GROWTH AND SOCIAL SKILLS IN CHILDREN: A NARRATIVE LITERATURE REVIEW

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.5583202321061

• Palavras-chave: High Skills/Giftedness; Social skills; Child.

• Keywords: High Skills/Giftedness; Social skills; Child.

• Abstract:

  High Abilities/Giftedness (HA/SD) characterizes people who show remarkable performance and high potential in any of the following aspects, isolated or combined: general intellectual capacity; specific academic aptitude; creative or productive thinking; leadership ability; special talent for the arts; psychomotor ability. Social Skills (SS) refer to a set of behavioral strategies and the capabilities to apply them in social situations involving the expression of attitudes, feelings, opinions and desires, emphasizing respect for oneself and others. The present work comprises a narrative review of the literature, where the national scientific production of the last ten years on High Abilities/Giftedness and its relationship with Social Skills in children was surveyed. The bibliography was consulted in databases such as Scielo, Pubmed and Google Scholar, based on the keywords: high skills; giftedness; social skills. The material was sorted and selected according to the intentions of the study and the information was organized, summarized and described in order to compose a meaningful whole that allowed understanding that there are studies that claim that these children can be emotionally unstable or not. The few studies on this relationship show the need for social skills training and family support and that the assessment must be multifactorial, involving psychological assessment instruments, neurological assessment and direct observation.