Juanita Neal-Baker Graduate Fellowship
Purpose
Graduate student fellowship for research and training in reducing violence toward women and children. (GF000172)Description
Recipients are chosen by the Dean of the School of Psychology.
History
Dr. Juanita Neal Baker, Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Illinois, is a Florida limited licensed psychologist and professor emerita at the Florida Institute of Technology.
Dr. Baker once said, “I want to do something relevant to people that will make a difference in our lives” and that is what she has been doing her whole life. Before moving to Florida in 1984, she lived in Lahore, Pakistan from 1966-1979, where established a pediatric clinic, was a school psychologist, taught kindergarten and high school art and also psychology at Forman Christian College, and founded the first children’s public library in a community serving more than twelve thousand children.
During the time she served as a professor at Florida Tech, from 1984-2007, Dr. Juanita Baker taught different courses on ethics, program evaluation, women’s studies, sexual abuse, and child behavior disorders and psychotherapy. Additionally, her research was focused on sexual abuse, trauma, grieving, depression, abusive parents, and domestic violence. From 1991-2007, she directed a sexual abuse treatment program where she supervised graduate trainees who were not only treating victims of sexual abuse, but also their non-offending caregivers, siblings, and offenders.
In 2012, Dr. Baker along with Dr. Sarah Weinstein-Arnett, ’10 Psy.D., started the innovative project Psychology Science Minute (PSM) where they posted one-minute-long informative videos for public access and education covering meaningful topics in psychology.
