Special Populations in Gifted Education: Working With Diverse Gifted Learners by Jaime A. Castellano

Author:Jaime A. Castellano [Castellano, Jaime A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: education, Administration, General
ISBN: 9780205359585
Google: stSeAAAAMAAJ
Publisher: Allyn and Bacon
Published: 2003-11-15T23:43:23.409776+00:00

Edelman (1994) described detachment from the daughter’s perspective as a “loud sound in an empty house, it echoes on and on” (p. 34). Loss of a mother through abandonment or neglect is every bit as stressful a loss as through actual death. Some experts consider mother loss as one of the most stressful life-cycle events a girl can face, and, without a forum for discussing her feelings, “the motherless daughter finds little validation for the magnitude of her loss” (Edelman, 1994, p. 23). Adding to these girls’ dubious condition is the fact that our culture is resistant to thoroughly examining mother loss and its effects. This resistance is a

symptom of a much deeper psychological denial, which originates from the place in our psyches where “mother” represents comfort and security no matter what our age, and where the mother-child bond is so primal that we equate its severing with a child’s emotional death. (Edelman, 1994, p. 23)

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