Dr. Goodman is Board Certified in all six areas of Psychiatry granted by the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology: Forensic, Child, Adolescent, Adult, Geriatric, and Addiction Psychiatry.  He is an Agreed and Qualified Medical Examiner certified by the California Division of Industrial Accidents.

Psychiatric Services:  In his private practice, Dr. Goodman evaluates and treats children/adolescents and their families, as well as adult and geriatric patients, and provides individual and family psychopharmacoligic treatment.  He treats all psychiatric disorders, including Attention Deficit Disorder, Pervasive Developmental Disorders/Autism, as well as all depressive and anxiety disorders (including Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder & Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder).  He also treats psychiatric problems resulting from traumatic events/accidents, including sustaining Traumatic Brain Injury.  He employs two Psychologists who provide psychological and neurophychological testing.

Dr. Goodman is a Staff Psychiatrist at Ventura County Mental Health and frequently called upon to testify as an Expert Witness in arbitrations and jury trials.  He is a Psychiatric Consultant to Clifton Tatum Juvenile Hall in Ventura County, and is Chief Investigator in a study of the efficacy of Ginkgo Biloba in Attention Deficit Disorder (a double-blind, placebo-controlled study).

Dr. Goodman is divorced and the father of four children.

Past Experience:  In 1995-1996, Dr. Goodman was Staff Psychiatrist with Ventura County Mental Health, and in charge of hospitalization of children and adolescents at a number of hospitals, including Camarillo State Hospital.  He provided evaluation and treatment at the inpatient Psychiatric Unit and was a consultant to outpatient child and adolescent psychiatric clinics, including Clifton Tatum Juvenile Hall.  He was a member of the Electroconvulsive Therapy Committee, chaired a Journal Club and, on a regular basis, was asked to lecture in the field of Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology to the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Education and Academic Experience:  Dr. Goodman graduated from Pennsylvania Medical College in 1974, completing Residency in both Adult and Family Psychiatry at Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1974-1976.  In 1976, he completed a Fellowship in Child, Adolescent & Family Psychiatry at Children's Hospital, National Medical Center, Washington, D.C. From 1984-1987, he was a Research Associate to Barton J. Blinder, M.D. (Professor of Psychiatry/Chief of Research, Eating Disorders Program, University of California-Irvine).  In 1985, Dr. Goodman co-chaired the symposium "Eating Disorders in Children" at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.  Dr. Goodman has also assisted Dr. Blinder in teaching Residents and co-authored three chapters with Dr. Blinder for the textbook, The Eating Disorders.  Dr. Goodman has written chapters in other textbooks published by the American Psychiatric Association.