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Lisa Goodman
Program Director, Counseling Psychology, Ph.D.
Professor
Lisa Goodman
Ph.D.
Contact
Campion 310
Telephone: 617-552-1725
Email: lisa.goodman@bc.edu
ORCID 0000-0002-1195-952X
Education
- Ph.D., Boston University
- M.A., Boston University
- B.A., Wesleyan University
Courses
Counseling Psychology in Context: Social Action, Consultation, and Collaboration
Doctoral Internship in Counseling Psychology
Contemporary Issues in Applied Psychology & Human Behavior
Research Interests
Intimate partner violence and community based participatory research
Expertise
- Equity and Social Justice
- Health and Well Being
Dr. Goodman is not accepting doctoral applicants.
Department
Profile
Lisa A. Goodman is a clinical-community psychologist and Professor in the Department of Counseling and Applied Developmental Psychology at Boston College. She uses a community-based participatory research approach to explore intimate partner violence, aiming to illuminate how survivors use their social networks for healing and safety, and how to improve systemic responses. Her research highlights the strengths and needs of marginalized survivors, including communities of color, and people who are unhoused. She has written over 120 articles and chapters on these topics and has received grants from the National Institute of Justice and the National Institute of Mental Health.
Dr. Goodman consults to national and local domestic violence organizations, and she is co-coordinator of the Domestic Violence Program Evaluation and Research Collaborative. Dr. Goodman is also interested in social justice pedagogy and mental health practices that extend beyond the 50-minute hour. She has received national awards for teaching and mentoring excellence, including the Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award.
Select Publications
- Goodman, L.A., Epstein, D., Zhang, E., Xie, C., Mueller-Hsia, J., Slocum, A. (2024). Trying to be there for her, knowing I’m mentally breaking myself.”: How mothers experience and respond to their adult children’s IPV. Journal of Family Violence.
- Hailes, H.P. & Goodman, L.A. (2023). They’re out to take away your sanity:” A qualitative investigation of gaslighting in intimate partner violence. Journal of Family Violence.
- Gutowski, E., Lawrence, A., & Goodman, L.A. (2023). Defining and measuring legal abuse as a form of coercive control. Domestic Violence Report, 15, 3, 9-16.
- Goodman, L.A., Epstein, D., Nnawulezi, N., Zhang, E., Hailes, H., & Slocum, A. (2022). Informal help-seeking in moments of acute danger: Intimate partner violence survivors’ emergency outreach efforts and the forces that shape them. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 38, 5-6.
- Goodman, L.A. & Epstein, D. (2020). Covid-19 and the loneliness pandemic: Implications for intimate partner violence survivors. Journal of Family Violence.
- Goodman, L.A. & Fauci, J.E. (2020). The long shadow of family separation: A structural and historical introduction to mandated reporting in the domestic violence context. Journal of Family Violence, 35, 3, 217-223.
- Borges, A.M. & Goodman, L.A. (2020). Considering poverty in the therapeutic process: Experienced therapists’ adaptations. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 33, 4, 490-515.
- Sullivan, C.M. & Goodman, L.A. (2019). Advocacy with survivors of intimate partner violence: What it is, what it isn’t, and why it’s critically important. Violence Against Women, 25, 16, 2007-2023.
- Fauci, J.E. & Goodman, L.A. (2019). You don’t need nobody else knocking you down”: Survivor-mothers’ experiences of surveillance in domestic violence shelters. Journal of Family Violence, 35, 241–254.
- Epstein, D. & Goodman, L.A. (2019). Discounting credibility: Doubting the testimony and dismissing the experiences of domestic violence survivors and other women. University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 167, 399- 461.