Elizabeth Mika

Elizabeth Mika

fot. The Family Institute

Elizabeth Mika, M.A., L.C.P.C, of Gifted Resources in Northern Illinois (in the Chicago area). Specjalizuje się w ocenie dzieci uzdolnionych i doradza uzdolnionym dorosłym. Zafascynowała się Teorią Dezintegracji Pozytywnej Dąbrowskiego  jako nastolatka, przebywając jeszcze w Polsce, z której pochodzi. Było to trzydzieści lat temu i wpłynęło na jej dalsze osobiste i zawodowe życie.

Jej zainteresowania to twórczość, style poznawcze i różnice indywidualne w uczeniu się, utalentowane dzieci i dorośli z zaburzeniami w uczeniu się i zachowaniu, oraz zdrowie psychiczne i rozwój spoleczno-emocjonalny utalentowanych dzieci i mlodziezy.

Elizabeth Mika, M.A., L.C.P.C, of Gifted Resources in Northern Illinois (in the Chicago area), specializes in assessment of gifted children and counseling for gifted adults. She became fascinated by Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration in her native Poland as a teenager over 30 years ago and has allowed that interest to influence her personal and professional life.

In addition to TPD, Elizabeth’s professional interests include creativity, learning differences and learning styles, multiple exceptionalities, moral and emotional giftedness, and mental health and socio-emotional development of gifted children and adults.

Bibliografia (dot. TDP):

• What’s Wrong with Feeling Good? Polish News, March 1998.

http://talentdevelop.com/articles/WhatIsWrongWFG.html

• Exposed on the Cliffs of the Heart: The Life and Loves of Rainer Maria Rilke in Light of the Theory of Positive Disintegration. Dabrowski Newsletter, Fall 2000.

• Patterns of Overexcitabilities in Gifted Children – a Study.  Proceedings from The Fifth International Conference of the Theory of Positive Disintegration, Fort Lauderdale, FL. 2002.

• On Primary Integration, Psychopathy and Average Person. Dabrowski Newsletter, Vol. 8 (1) Winter 2003.

http://positivedisintegration.com/Primary.pdf

• Ecce Homo: Adam Chmielowski’s Growth through Positive Disintegration. Proceedings from The Sixth International Congress of the Institute For Positive Disintegration in Human Development, Calgary, Canada. 2004.

• Theory of Positive Disintegration as a Model of Personality Development for Exceptional Individuals.
Perspectives in Gifted Education: Complexities of Emotional Development, Spirituality and Hope. Vol.3, Fall 2005. University of Denver.

http://talentdevelop.com/articles/TOPDAAM1.html

• Giftedness, ADHD, and overexcitabilities: the possibilities of misinformation. Roeper Review, Summer, 2006.

• The Myth of Well-Roundedness. 2e Newsletter, Issue 21, March 2007.

http://www.2enewsletter.com/articles%202007_nonsubscribers.htm#The_Myth

• Dabrowski’s Views on Authentic Mental Health. In: Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration. Sal Mendaglio, Editor. 2008.