ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Karen A. Smith, Ph.D. has devoted her clinical psychology practice to children and their families for the past eighteen years. Her feature article on her son’s personal experiences with sensory integrative dysfunction in the September/October 2000 issue of the Family Therapy Networker generated an overwhelmingly positive response from parents, family therapists, and occupational therapists. She is currently a school counselor at a public elementary school, an adjunct professor in the Department of Psychology and a consultant at the Center for Family Research at the University of Georgia. She has also worked with Head Start and Early Intervention programs for young children. She and her family live in Athens, Georgia.

Karen R. Gouze, Ph.D. is Director of Clinical Psychology Training at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago and assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. For the past twenty years, she has worked clinically with children, adolescents and families in outpatient psychiatry at Children’s Memorial Hospital. She has taught family therapy and developmental psychopathology, developed a school-based mental health program, and conducted research on disruptive behavior disorders in children and stress and coping in adolescents. She is currently coordinating a research project investigating the prevalence of sensory processing problems among children referred for mental health evaluation and treatment. She and her family live in River Forest, Illinois..