When Smart Kids Underachieve in School: Practical Solutions for Teachers may be an unlikely read for mental health professionals, but it offers valuable insight, nonetheless. In many ways, busy educators will find the most benefit from its greatest offerings: brevity, broad brushstrokes, lesson plan ideas, and hands-on classroom strategies. Only 1 chapter, a mere 16 pages, explores how a child's home life might affect their academic achievement and motivation. Yet the book lends us a new vantage point, that of educator, through which we may understand the psychology of our underachieving, gifted clients—and their academic context—even more fully. Sometimes a new perspective is just what is needed.