Lenore E. A. Walker, Ed.D. has been called the 'mother' of the battered woman syndrome as it was her research back in the late 1970's that named the psychological phenomenon that has assisted millions of people in better understanding why battered women have such difficulty in getting out of domestic violence relationships. First used in treatment planning by therapists and in legal defenses when battered women killed in self-defense, battered woman syndrome is seen as a subcategory of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and as part of other trauma responses. Dr. Walker works with other staff at IFPI in assessment and in consultation with attorneys whose clients have been involved in domestic violence whether it is criminal prosecution or defense, civil tort, family law, custody, visitation and removal of children and juvenile cases. She also is available to work on cases involving sexual abuse and exploitation, discrimination and harassment, women with serious mental illness and other co-occurring disorders including impact from abuse or other areas where the client's state of mind is at issue. Director of the Domestic Violence Institute, Walker is a popular speaker who travels around the world at the invitation of governments and groups attempting to make policy changes in dealing with abuse against women and children.
Dr. Walker earned her doctorate in psychology from Rutgers, the State University in New Jersey in 1972. She earned a master's degree from City College of the City University of New York (CUNY) in 1967 and her bachelors' degree from CUNY's Hunter College in 1962. She is currently licensed in Colorado, New Jersey and Florida, where she has lived during the past 30 years that she has been in practice. A full professor of psychology at Nova Southeastern University in the Center for Psychological Studies, she currently coordinates the forensic psychology concentration in the doctoral program. She is the director of the forensic psychology concentration and supervisor in the practicum program for forensic students at various sites in Broward and Miami/Dade counties and has worked closely with the courts of therapeutic jurisprudence, especially the nation's first mental health court. She is the author of 11 books.
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