Advanced Development Journal
The first and only professional journal to address the unique issues of gifted adults, published by ISAD since 1989.
The study of giftedness across a lifetime
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The study of giftedness across a lifetime 💎
A forward-thinking publication dedicated to unlocking undeveloped potential in gifted individuals, with a special focus on women and underrepresented communities. We explore advanced moral and emotional development, offering insights, research, stories that inspire transformative growth and leadership.
Advanced Development Journal Vol. 19
In Volume 19, with Guest Editor, Michele Kane, authors, poets, and artists address the theme, “The Journey toward Transcendence.”
Each author provides insight into the meaning of personality growth through transcendence. Examples of the process include self-transcendence, self-acceptance, authenticity, spirituality, introspection, and moral development.
The artwork, Transcend, was painted by Kent Talmage-Bowers especially for this volume of the journal, and Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization by Scott Barry Kaufman was reviewed by Thomas Brennan. Readers will also enjoy the collection of poems, art by Pam McKinnie, book reviews on topics related to gifted elders, emotional sensitivity, intensity, personality development through positive disintegration and how to find a deeper relationship with all life.
We are looking for new manuscripts for our next volume
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We are looking for new manuscripts for our next volume 〰️
New manuscripts for Vol. 21!
October 15, 2025 for first consideration
Manuscripts are welcome at any time and will be considered as they are received for publication in the next volume. Those received by October 15, 2025, will receive first consideration for Vol. 21.
And announcing a new section for publication: Uncommon Ground
When you have something to share, but it just doesn’t fit into an academic category. We’re seeking shorter pieces (under 1500 words) that draw on the author's personal knowledge and experience, giving readers a stimulating new perspective or tool.
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ADJ TEAM
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Editor
Nancy B. Miller, PhD, is a social psychologist and editor of Advanced Development, a journal on adult giftedness. She does research and testing at the Gifted Development Center in Westminster, Colorado. She has taught sociology at the University of Denver and the University of Akron. For many years, she served as Executive Officer of Sociologist for Women in Society. She discovered Dabrowski’s theory as a graduate student and developed a coding system to assess levels of emotional development. She has worked and published with Dr. Linda Silverman and Dr. Frank Falk for over 30 years. Her publications focus on emotional development, gender and giftedness, social support and adjustment to stressful life events, and family processes and child outcomes. In 2019 she published “Research at the Gifted Development Center” in the Polish Journal Psychologiczne Zeszyty Naukowe [Scientific Journal of Psychology] 2/2018: 29-39
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Consulting Editor
Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical and counseling psychologist. She directs the Institute for the Study of Advanced Development, and its subsidiary, the Gifted Development Center (GDC) in Denver, Colorado, which has assessed over 6,500 children in the last 40 years. This is the largest data base on the gifted population. She and her colleagues at GDC have developed 40 instruments. For nine years she served on the faculty of the University of Denver (DU), in Counseling Psychology and Gifted Education. She developed a course on Assessment of the Gifted at DU, which was also a short course taught abroad. She has been studying the assessment, psychology and education of the gifted since 1961 and has written over 300 articles, chapters and books, including the textbook, Counseling the Gifted and Talented, adopted at 50 colleges. Her latest book, Giftedness 101 (Springer, 2013), contains a chapter on assessment. It has been translated into Korean and Swedish.
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Associate Editor
Michael M. Piechowski, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Educational Advancement, author of “Mellow Out,” They Say. If I Only Could, contributor to the Handbook of Gifted Education, Encyclopedia of Creativity and co-editor with Susan Daniels of Living with Intensity. Since 2002 he has been involved with the Yunasa summer camp for highly gifted youth. He collaborated with Kazimierz Dabrowski and published on emotional and spiritual giftedness.
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Board Member, Poetry Editor of Advanced Development
Bruce Allen is a graduate of Colorado State University and the University of Colorado. In his 42-year teaching career, he taught students 7th to 12th grade and those at Front Range Community College in Westminster, Colorado. Those years encompass public schools and private, where he was an instructor in English, gifted and talented, interdisciplinary studies, and history.
For the benefit of young gifted, he presents needed curriculum ideas for teachers and students. Near publication, his book, Pearl in a Petri Dish: Poetry, Gifted, and the Visual-Spatial Learner, verifies with student examples the potency of poetry writing for academic success.
He was the Gifted and Talented Coordinator at Northglenn High School in Adams 12, Colorado. His presentations include those at state and national conferences, CAGT and NAGC, and at the International Dabrowski Congress. In hiatus, he hopes to return to volunteer at the Colorado Horse Rescue.
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Assistant Editor
Kathee Jones, BFA, MA, has been an assistant editor for Advanced Development since 2015. She is a writer, artist, and longtime advocate for gifted children. She holds a BFA (Painting) and a MA (Anthropology/Sociolinguistics) from Arizona State University, and is a trained SENG Parent Model Group facilitator. She has decades of experience within the gifted community, with a focus on advocacy and non-traditional learning paths. Kathee has presented at NAGC and CAGT conferences and Dabrowski congresses, and her work has been published in Advanced Development Journal and 2e Newsletter. She is especially interested in the role of metaphor in creativity and transformation.