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Karen Zilberstein, LICSW, is a practicing psychotherapist and Clinical Director of the Northampton, MA chapter of A Home Within, a national nonprofit that provides pro bono psychotherapy for individuals who have experienced foster care. She has co-authored a children’s book entitled Calming Stormy Feelings: A Child’s Introduction to Psychotherapy and published numerous journal articles on child therapy, parenting interventions, the treatment of foster and adopted children, and the clinical implications of attachment and complex trauma in children. Her blog, entitled From Research to Practice, is aimed at bringing the latest research on parenting, child development, and therapeutic interventions. In her latest book, Parents Under Pressure: Struggling to Raise Children in an Unequal America (Leveller Press, March 2019), she provides a candid look at how parents contending with poverty, illness, disability and other constraints. 

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Raising a child with special needs can both brim with moments of joy and accomplishment, and at the same time, be loaded with moments of aggravations. Day to day struggles result both from the high level of care a child requires and the endless demands of the service systems.
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