Abortion Counseling - A Clinician's Guide to Psych, Bio Med 1
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Abortion Counseling
A Clinician’s Guide to Psychology,
Legislation, Politics, and Competency
Rachel B. Needle, PsyD
Lenore E. A. Walker, EdD
New York
Rachel B. Needle, PsyD,
received her Master of Science (MS) and Doctor of psy-
chology (PsyD) from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
She received her BA in psychology from Barnard College, Columbia University.
Dr. Needle completed an internship in clinical psychology at the University of
Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ): Robert Wood Medical School
in Piscataway, New Jersey. She is a Florida Certifi ed Sex Therapist. Dr. Needle is
currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Marital and Sexual Health of
South Florida.
Dr. Needle is an adjunct professor of psychology in the Department of Behav-
ioral Sciences at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She is
also the director of Health Information Services at Positive Friends, an Internet dat-
ing Web site for individuals with viral sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
Dr. Needle cofounded Florida Friends for Choice (FFC), a nonprofi t organi-
zation whose mission is to provide legal aid to women and health care providers
to guarantee access to safe, quality reproductive health care for all women.
Dr. Needle’s clinical and research interests include sexual function and dys-
function, relationship concerns, sexual compulsivity, battered women, and trauma.
She has a particular interest in working with individuals both during and follow-
ing cancer treatment. Dr. Needle has presented her research and clinical work at
national and international conferences.
Lenore E. A. Walker, EdD,
is a professor at Nova Southeastern University Center
for Psychological Studies and Coordinator of the Clinical Forensic Psychology
Concentration for doctoral students training to be clinical psychologists. She cur-
rently has an independent practice of forensic psychology and is executive direc-
tor of the Domestic Violence Institute with affi liate centers around the world.
Dr. Walker specializes in work with victims of interpersonal violence, particularly
battered women and abused children. Her expert witness testimony opposed to
the numerous challenges to
Roe v. Wade
dealing with notifi cation or consent laws
helped established judicial by-pass procedures, especially needed when teens come
from homes where there is domestic violence. Dr. Walker earned her undergraduate
degree in 1962 from The City University of New York (CUNY) Hunter College,
her Master of Science in 1967 from CUNY City College. and her Doctor of Educa-
tion in psychology from Rutgers University in New Jersey. In 2004, she received a
postdoctoral Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychopharmacology at Nova Southeast-
ern University (NSU). She has worked on high-publicity cases, such as with bat-
tered women who kill their abusive partners in self-defense, and testifi es on behalf
of protective mothers who are being challenged for custody by abusive fathers. She
lectures and does training workshops all over the world about prevention, psycho-
therapy, legal cases, and public policy initiatives for abused women and children.
Dr. Walker has authored numerous professional articles and 15 books, including
The Battered Woman
(1979),
The Battered Woman Syndrome
(1984/2000),
Ter-
rifying Love: Why Battered Women Kill & How Society Responds
(1989), and
Abused Women & Survivor Therapy
(1994). In addition, she wrote
Introduction
to Forensic Psychology
(2004) with coauthor David Shapiro and
A First Respond-
ers Guide to Abnormal Psychology
(2007) with coauthor William Dorfman.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Needle, Rachel.
Abortion counseling : a clinician’s guide to psychology, legislation, politics,
and competency / Rachel Needle, Lenore Walker.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8261-0257-7 (alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-8261-0257-3 (alk. paper)
1. Abortion counseling—United States. 2. Pregnancy, Unwanted—United
States.
3. Pregnant women—Mental health services—United States.
I. Walker,
Lenore E. II. Title.
HQ767.4.N44 2007
363.46—dc22
2007022455
Printed in the United States of America by Bang Printing.
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