Past Conferences

Dr. Walker and Dr. Shapiro presented at the SDPA Annual Conference in Sioux Falls, South Dakota April 4-5, 2025, on criminal law, civil law and personal injury, family law, risk assessment, malpractice, domestic violence and intervention, and ethics....

Dr. Walker presented at the AAFP conference in San Antonio, Texas in September 2024 on forensic assessment and testimony with justice-involved, abused women. ...

Dr. Walker presented at the APA Annual Convention in Seattle, Washington August 8-10, 2024, on the history of antisemitic tropes and violence against Jews in APA. Dr. Walker also proposed guidelines on key considerations for working with adults with PTSD and traumatic stress disorders – which were approved!...

Dr. Walker presented at the NMCS conference in Sante Fe, New Mexico in January 2024 on combating antisemitism. Dr. Walker also led a thoughtful open-table discussion fostering dialogue between Jewish and Black psychologists....

Dr. Walker spoke at the APA Annual Convention on her research about “Women Who Kill.” It took place virtually from August 6 to 9, 2020. Dr. Walker chaired a symposium on “Women Who Kill” based on her research with over 30 women who had killed their abusive partners or children. ...

Dr. Walker presented “Ethical Biomedical Research with PTSD” in Prague, The Czech Republic in July 2021. The event was sponsored by the Academy of Law and Mental Health and Charles University. ...

Dr. Walker presented the exciting new Battered Woman Syndrome Questionnaire (BWSQ) to assess the psychological impact on abuse survivors with other members of our international research team....

At the APA Annual Convention in Chicago in August 2019, Dr. Walker will be joining Dr. Shapiro at the Division 42 Social Hour where he will be receiving the Distinguished Psychologist Award....

BWSQ research team together with Dr. Lenore E. Walker presented on the evaluation of battered woman for the National Institute for Women INAMU in  San José, Costa Rica. ...

Dr. Walker will be a keynote speaker at the New Jersey Psychological Association (NJPA) conference on November 11, 2017....

Co-chair with Dr. Shapiro and Dr. Molitor, Dr. Walker presented at the APA Division 42 Fast Forward Conference held in Philadelphia PA....

Dentists as well as medical and other professionals all must receive continuing education in domestic violence for their license renewal....

Dr. Walker & Dr. Shapiro do the continuing education training in domestic violence, medical errors and ethics and the law for Florida psychology (490) and mental health professionals (491) license renewal each year....

Training residents in psychology is another invitation that Dr. Walker responds to each year at Citrus Health Center in Miami/Hialeah Florida. ...

At the APA annual convention in Washington DC in 2017, Dr. Walker chaired the symposium on “Sex Trafficking” and “Validation of the Battered Woman Syndrome Questionnaire” ...

In Peru in April 2017, she was awarded an Honorary Professor from the Pontifica Catolica Universidad of Peru (PUCP). Here are pictures of the ceremony along with the speech that she gave about the university’s role with psychology in furthering women’s rights....

In 2015 Dr. Walker presented a symposium on “Battered Woman Syndrome Testimony in the Courts” in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands....

Dr. Walker is often invited to give keynote speeches at various conferences around the world. Here is her presentation at the Romanian Psychological Association in Bucharest, Romania in 2015....

Child Custody disputes where domestic violence is alleged have occurred rarely result in the protection of children and their mothers....

In November 2014 the forensic team gave presentations and Dr. Walker talked about how domestic violence relationships had moments of violence as well as loving behavior....

In 2014 she compared domestic violence in the U.S. and what is known around the world in a symposium, “Global Domestic Violence” with some pictures illustrating in several different countries....