Child and Adolescent Psychodynamic Therapy: Using Q-Methodology in Process Research

Associate Professor of Psychology in the Long Island University Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program, New York. He is also a licensed clinical and school psychologist with 29 years of experience in private practice in New York, treating children and adolescents as well as adults. He is certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) and is certified as both an adult and a child and adolescent psychoanalyst and Fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association (FIPA). In 2013, Dr. Goodman was awarded the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship by the US Department of State and spent eight months in 2014 establishing and evaluating a play-based intervention program to facilitate the development of school readiness skills in preschool children in two rural village libraries in Uganda. Dr. Goodman is Coordinator of the Long Island University Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program Applied Child Research Team; Steering Committee member and former Chair of the Child, Adolescent, and Family Therapy Research (CAFTR) Special Interest Group of the international Society for Psychotherapy Research; and Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Rural Village Libraries Research Network. He is former Director of the Long Island University Children’s Institute for Play Therapy and Research (CIPTAR) and former Director of the Norbert Freedman Center for Psychoanalytic Research at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York, serving on its Board of Directors. Dr. Goodman lives in Lynbrook, NY, with his wife Valeda, daughter Carlyn, and Bengal cat, Sulwe.