Lisa Goodman

Lisa A. Goodman (born 1961) is a counseling psychologist known for her research on domestic violence and violence against women. She is Professor of Counseling Psychology at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. Goodman is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Division of Counseling Psychology. Goodman has won prestigious awards for teaching and mentoring students. She received the 2014 Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award for higher education faculty who have inspired students to make a difference in their communities, the 2009 Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching and Mentoring, and the 2007 Bonnie Strickland-Jessica Henderson Daniel Distinguished Mentoring Award from the Society for the Psychology of Women (APA Division 35). Goodman was recipient of SPSSI's Louise Kidder Early Career Award for Contributions to Social Issues Research in 1996. Goodman is co-author (with Deborah Epstein) of Listening to Battered Women: A Survivor-entered Approach to Advocacy, Mental Health, and Justice (2008) and co-author (with Mary Koss, Angela Browne, Louise Fitzgerald, Gwendolyn Puryear Keita, and Nancy Felipe Russo) of No Safe Haven: Male Violence Against Women at Home, at Work, and in the Community (1994).