Description: This book guides mental health professionals through their roles in a politically charged landscape, outlining how forced pregnancy can harm clients' financial, social, physical, and mental health-especially those in marginalized communities. It helps clinicians understand and respond to these impacts.
Brief description: Jennifer Toof, LPC, NCC, is the owner/founder of Trauma Informed Counseling & Consulting, through which she provides trauma-informed mental health counseling services to children and adults and trauma/mental health consulting services to organizations. She earned her PhD in International Psychology from The Chicago School with a focus on trauma services. She has presented on a wide array of subjects at national and international professional conferences, most recently presenting on the topic of this book at the 2023 American Psychological Association conference in Washington, DC. She has been published in peer-reviewed journals on topics such as childhood trauma, integrated family therapy, and rehabilitative yoga and mindfulness for the incarcerated population. As a passionate advocate for social justice causes and the rights, dignity, and well-being of all, Jennifer sees clear parallels between counseling and advocacy work.