Geoff Goodman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4450031 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoff Goodman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoff |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodman |
| SIGNATURE | GOODMAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8891-5958 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From the cushion to the couch
In the Christian context, spiritual Direction is a practice of listening together to how the Holy Spirit – however, conceptualized by the spiritual director and directee – might be moving in the directee’s life. Spiritual Direction is reconsidered in the context of attachment theory. For anxious-avoidant persons, spiritual Direction can reinforce the avoidance of painful early childhood experiences with caregivers by training the mind to let go o…
From Fragmentation to Coherence
Stephen Ministry
Stephen Ministry is a popular nondenominational Christian caregiving model, training lay persons in church congregations to care for fellow congregants in a quasi-therapeutic context without formal licensure requirements. It is argued that Stephen Ministry, based on the principles of person-centered psychotherapy, imposes a one-size-fits-all strategy for helping the client (i.e. clients receive empathy, validation, encouragement, and spiritual to…
Constructing Spiritual Attachment
Godly Play
A Yogi in Attachment-Informed Psychotherapy
The Efficacy of Two Group Interventions on Mental Representations, Attachment Security, and Trauma Symptoms in Ethnically and Socioeconomically Minoritized Young Adolescents in an Urban Middle School
Symptoms resulting from childhood trauma can negatively impact socioemotional well-being and school performance during early adolescence unless positive changes in attachment security and mental representations of significant relationships occur. A sample of 109 eighth grade urban students were randomly assigned to one of two weekly, one-hour, school-based group interventions-Storytelling/Story-Acting for Adolescents (STSA-A) or Mentalization-Bas…
The therapeutic process of a child diagnosed with disruptive mood dysregulation disorder
Encopresis happens
Mothers' borderline features and children's disorganized attachment representations as predictors of children's externalizing behavior
Predictors of representational aggression in preschool children of low‐income urban African American adolescent mothers
Responses to five doll‐story stems thematically related to attachment experiences with the mother were videotaped in the home and used to evaluate child, maternal, and environmental predictors of representational aggression in 93 preschool children of African American women receiving public assistance who had become pregnant as teenagers. Significant correlations were found between representational aggression and child's gender (male), birth weig…
Therapeutic attachment relationships
Mother expectation of bother and infant attachment behaviors as predictors of mother and child communication at 24 months in children of methadone-maintained women
This study used a transactional model of development (Sameroff, 1975) to test whether methadone exposure, mother's expectation of her future infant's degree of bother during pregnancy, infant attachment behaviors assessed at 12 months, and mother and child communication assessed at 24 months reciprocally influence each other in a sample of 30 full-term, African American toddlers exposed in utero to methadone and 42 comparison toddlers. Toddlers w…
Empirical Evidence Supporting the Conceptual Relatedness of Object Representations and Internal Working Models
The proliferation of new developmental and clinical theories broadly termed “psychoanalytic” demands a methodology for making systematic comparisons to establish the commonalities and distinctions among them. This article presents an empirical method for the comparative evaluation of such theories. The Mother-To-Child Object Representation / Internal Working Model Q-sort is a 100-item instrument constructed to assess the quality of the prototypic…
Kleinian Guilt, Determinism, and Free Will
The purpose of this discussion of teleological and deterministic concepts in clinical theory and treatment was not to offer definitive answers to a timeless philosophical problem. Indeed, a solution to the problem of free will in a deterministic science eludes even the greatest thinkers (cf. Howard and Conway, 1987). Following Feyerabend (1984), the purpose was instead to question one of the "general and lasting boundary conditions" (p.3)-causal …
The relations between maternal behaviors and urban preschool children's internal working models of attachment security
Interviewed 93 African-American, low-income women who had become pregnant as teenagers and their preschool-aged children in their homes. Mothers answered questions regarding their everyday stresses and feelings of depression. Children were assessed for receptive vocabulary ability, then video-taped completing five stories thematically related to attachment experiences with mother and rated on their security of attachment. Mothers and children wer…
Feeling our way into empathy
Predictors of representational aggression in preschool children of low‐income urban African American adolescent mothers
Responses to five doll‐story stems thematically related to attachment experiences with the mother were videotaped in the home and used to evaluate child, maternal, and environmental predictors of representational aggression in 93 preschool children of African American women receiving public assistance who had become pregnant as teenagers. Significant correlations were found between representational aggression and child's gender (male), birth weig…
Mother expectation of bother and infant attachment behaviors as predictors of mother and child communication at 24 months in children of methadone-maintained women
This study used a transactional model of development (Sameroff, 1975) to test whether methadone exposure, mother's expectation of her future infant's degree of bother during pregnancy, infant attachment behaviors assessed at 12 months, and mother and child communication assessed at 24 months reciprocally influence each other in a sample of 30 full-term, African American toddlers exposed in utero to methadone and 42 comparison toddlers. Toddlers w…
Feeling our way into empathy
Kleinian Guilt, Determinism, and Free Will
The purpose of this discussion of teleological and deterministic concepts in clinical theory and treatment was not to offer definitive answers to a timeless philosophical problem. Indeed, a solution to the problem of free will in a deterministic science eludes even the greatest thinkers (cf. Howard and Conway, 1987). Following Feyerabend (1984), the purpose was instead to question one of the "general and lasting boundary conditions" (p.3)-causal …
The relations between maternal behaviors and urban preschool children's internal working models of attachment security
Interviewed 93 African-American, low-income women who had become pregnant as teenagers and their preschool-aged children in their homes. Mothers answered questions regarding their everyday stresses and feelings of depression. Children were assessed for receptive vocabulary ability, then video-taped completing five stories thematically related to attachment experiences with mother and rated on their security of attachment. Mothers and children wer…
Mother expectation of bother and infant attachment behaviors as predictors of mother and child communication at 24 months in children of methadone-maintained women
This study used a transactional model of development (Sameroff, 1975) to test whether methadone exposure, mother's expectation of her future infant's degree of bother during pregnancy, infant attachment behaviors assessed at 12 months, and mother and child communication assessed at 24 months reciprocally influence each other in a sample of 30 full-term, African American toddlers exposed in utero to methadone and 42 comparison toddlers. Toddlers w…
Empirical Evidence Supporting the Conceptual Relatedness of Object Representations and Internal Working Models
The proliferation of new developmental and clinical theories broadly termed “psychoanalytic” demands a methodology for making systematic comparisons to establish the commonalities and distinctions among them. This article presents an empirical method for the comparative evaluation of such theories. The Mother-To-Child Object Representation / Internal Working Model Q-sort is a 100-item instrument constructed to assess the quality of the prototypic…
Therapeutic attachment relationships
Predictors of representational aggression in preschool children of low‐income urban African American adolescent mothers
Responses to five doll‐story stems thematically related to attachment experiences with the mother were videotaped in the home and used to evaluate child, maternal, and environmental predictors of representational aggression in 93 preschool children of African American women receiving public assistance who had become pregnant as teenagers. Significant correlations were found between representational aggression and child's gender (male), birth weig…
Encopresis happens
Mothers' borderline features and children's disorganized attachment representations as predictors of children's externalizing behavior
The therapeutic process of a child diagnosed with disruptive mood dysregulation disorder
The Efficacy of Two Group Interventions on Mental Representations, Attachment Security, and Trauma Symptoms in Ethnically and Socioeconomically Minoritized Young Adolescents in an Urban Middle School
Symptoms resulting from childhood trauma can negatively impact socioemotional well-being and school performance during early adolescence unless positive changes in attachment security and mental representations of significant relationships occur. A sample of 109 eighth grade urban students were randomly assigned to one of two weekly, one-hour, school-based group interventions-Storytelling/Story-Acting for Adolescents (STSA-A) or Mentalization-Bas…
A Yogi in Attachment-Informed Psychotherapy
Stephen Ministry
Stephen Ministry is a popular nondenominational Christian caregiving model, training lay persons in church congregations to care for fellow congregants in a quasi-therapeutic context without formal licensure requirements. It is argued that Stephen Ministry, based on the principles of person-centered psychotherapy, imposes a one-size-fits-all strategy for helping the client (i.e. clients receive empathy, validation, encouragement, and spiritual to…
Constructing Spiritual Attachment
Godly Play
From the cushion to the couch
In the Christian context, spiritual Direction is a practice of listening together to how the Holy Spirit – however, conceptualized by the spiritual director and directee – might be moving in the directee’s life. Spiritual Direction is reconsidered in the context of attachment theory. For anxious-avoidant persons, spiritual Direction can reinforce the avoidance of painful early childhood experiences with caregivers by training the mind to let go o…
From Fragmentation to Coherence
Psychology (14 works) · Psychoanalysis (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Psychotherapist (7 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Child Therapy and Development (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works)