CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

Private Practice, Keller, Texas, 2000 – present. Practice focuses on criminal and civil forensic evaluations conducted throughout the state of Texas, but includes general psychological evaluations and clinical treatment. Qualifications exceed the qualifications mandated for forensic examiners and set forth in Chapter 46B of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedures. Specializing in the evaluation and treatment of difficult cases. Expert witness testimony, staff training, and psycholegal case conceptualization are offered. Provide specialized consultation services regarding the treatment of violent individuals. Please see http://www.drgoodness.com for more information about the services offered to the court, defense attorneys, prosecutors, and civil attorneys.

Chief Forensic Psychologist, Behavior Management Treatment Program and Social Learning Diagnostic Program Coordinator, North Texas State Hospital, Vernon, Texas, July 1999 – October 2002. Treating clinician and Interdisciplinary Treatment Team Leader for 60 highly stimulus-seeking patients who were served on a maximum-security forensic unit. Clinically supervised Multidisciplinary Treatment Team members and all aspects of the Psychology Service for a treatment resistant patient population that included both criminally and civilly committed individuals who were considered the State’s most dangerous and difficult to treat psychiatric patients and therefore, too dangerous to be treated elsewhere. Patients included individuals who had been found: Manifestly Dangerous, Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity, and Incompetent to Stand Trial. Duties included conducting and supervising functional behavior analysis, the design of individualized behavior modification programs and individual psychotherapy. Performed both general psychological and specialized forensic assessments. Provided inter- and intra-agency difficult case consultation. Designed and implemented a treatment and assessment program that emphasized Social Learning Principles and the identification of individual-specific violence and dangerousness management strategies. Responsibilities involved administration and quality assurance for the North Texas State Hospitals at Wichita Falls and Vernon. Provided hospital wide consultation services and oversight of Social Learning Programming. Designed and implemented a treatment planning process that emphasized the development of an individually tailored dangerousness risk management plan for each patient. This includes both proactive and reactive management strategies aimed at addressing violent behavior before its occurrence and controlling dangerous behavior once it was in process.

Pre-Doctoral Residency, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, August 1998 –July 1999. Provided assessment, individual and group psychotherapy, and consultation services during rotations in Neuropsychology and Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Adult Psychiatry, Behavioral Pediatrics, and Adult Physical Medicine. Emphasis was on identification and treatment of neuropsychological impairments. Responsibilities also included case presentations, research presentations, and teaching.

Associate Clinical Psychologist II, Vernon State Hospital, Vernon, Texas, December 1996 – June 1998. Provided group and individual psychotherapy services to this maximum-security forensic inpatient population. Performed psychological assessments including comprehensive diagnostic, intellectual, personality, and focused forensic assessments (e.g., malingering determination, competency to stand trial). Primary diagnoses included schizophrenia, delusional disorder, depression, antisocial personality disorder, pedophilia, substance abuse and dependence. Provided consultation services. Initiated stress management groups for staff, promoted staff cohesiveness and facilitated team building. Conducted conference presentations and staff training with an emphasis on assessment and diagnostic issues.

Externship, Vernon State Hospital, Vernon, Texas, August 1996 - December 1996. Provided group and individual psychotherapy services to a primarily male, forensic inpatient population. Provided cognitive-behavioral treatment for sex offenders. Adapted Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for use with this population. Performed psychological evaluations using psychometric, structured and projective testing. Made treatment recommendations and provided consultation services to treatment teams.

Training Clinician, University of North Texas Psychology Clinic, Denton, Texas, August 1994 - August 1996. Conducted intake and diagnostic evaluations of adults and children. Conducted comprehensive assessments using projective and objective tests in the areas of intelligence, achievement, personality, learning disabilities, neuropsychological screening, and vocational interests and abilities with children, adolescents, and adults. Formulated treatment plans and provided brief and long-term psychotherapy services to adults with diverse presenting problems. Participated in weekly vertical practicum meetings in which client cases were presented and discussed. Supervised less advanced team members.

RELATED CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Program, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, May 1997. Assisted Roman Gleyzer, M.D. in evaluating and treating patients at Brazoria County Detention Center and Galveston City Jail during a week long intensive training experience in this fellowship program headed by Alan R. Felthous, M.D. Also attended and participated in lectures, research meetings, grand rounds, and seminars.

Crisis Hotline Counselor, Contact 214, Dallas, Texas, February 1993 - August 1994. Used a crisis intervention model to counsel callers with a wide range of problems.

LEADERSHIP POSITIONS

Texas Forensic Network, Committee Member, January 2001 – Present. Member of a multidisciplinary group that works to guide and improve forensic services in Texas through presenting specialized training and providing information to legislators.

North Texas State Hospital Social Learning Diagnostic System Implementation Group, Committee Member, North Texas State Hospital, January 2001 – October 2002. Committee member of an administrative body charged with guiding the implementation of Social Learning and Dangerousness Management programming throughout the hospital.

Behavior Management Treatment Program Quality Assurance Team Member, Committee Member, North Texas State Hospital – Vernon Campus, Vernon, Texas, August 1999 – October 2002. Committee member of a governing body that provides unit leadership, sets unit guidelines and goals, and made administrative decisions.

Psychology Executive Committee, Committee Member, North Texas State Hospital, Wichita Falls, Texas, August 1999 - October 2002. Responsible for establishing guidelines for problem solving of psychology related issues. Assisted in evaluating the professional conduct and clinical skills of hospital psychologists.

Organization's Performance Evaluation Team, Team Member, North Texas State Hospital, Vernon, Texas, December 1999 - October 2002. Responsible for evaluating randomly chosen patient chart samples for appropriate patient care, staff cultural sensitivity, family education, and patient rights protection.

Training Team Representative – Chief Resident, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, August 1998 – July 1999. Attended meetings of the faculty training team to represent the interests and concerns of the eight Psychology Residents.

Psychology Quality Assurance Team Member, Vernon and Wichita Falls State Hospitals, Wichita Falls, Texas, December 1996 – June 1998. Assisted in establishing guidelines for evaluating the professional conduct and clinical skills of masters and Ph.D. level psychologists at these hospitals. Participated in evaluations of staff psychologist’s clinical knowledge and skills in order to ensure quality psychological services. Also assisted in establishing a peer review process.

Psychology Clinical Leadership Council, Vernon and Wichita Falls State Hospitals, Wichita Falls, Texas, December 1996 – June 1998. Assisted in defining the scope of psychology as a discipline and establishing guidelines and standards for the professional conduct and practice of psychologists at these hospitals.

Case Management Committee, Acting Chairperson, Contact 214, Dallas, Texas, September 1993 - August 1994. Evaluated caller logs and case histories for potential caller problems, presented cases to the committee, deliberated on the most appropriate counseling for particular callers, and updated case files.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

· American Psychological Association

· Texas Psychological Association

· Texas Forensic Network

· Division 12 Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association

· Division 41 Division of Psychology and the Law of the American Psychological Association

· Psi Chi, National Honor Society in Psychology

SELECTED SAMPLING OF CONSULTATIONS

(Note: The list below is meant as a sampling of cases and is by no means a complete accounting of the cases I have conducted.)

Mental State at the Time of the Offense Evaluation, Edinburg, Texas. Charge: Murder

Pretrial Mitigation Investigation and Case Development, Fort Worth, Texas. Charge: Capital Murder. Outcome: Life Verdict.

Pretrial Mitigation Investigation and Case Development, Fort Worth, Texas. Charge: Capital Murder. Outcome: Plea.

Pretrial Mitigation Investigation and Case Development, Odessa, Texas. Charge: Attempted Capital Murder.

Sex Offender Evaluation, Wise County, Texas.

Juvenile Fitness to Proceed - Denton, Texas

Pretrial Mitigation Investigation and Case Development, Palestine, Texas. Charge: Capital Murder.

Pretrial Mitigation Investigation and Case Development, Denton, Texas. Charge: Capital Murder.

Pretrial Mitigation Investigation and Case Development, Sweetwater, Texas. Charge: Capital Murder. Outcome: Plea.

Insanity Evaluation, Fort Worth, Texas. Charge: Capital Murder.

American’s with Disabilities Act Civil Case, Fort Worth, Texas. Retained by: Plaintiff. Outcome: Summary Judgment in Plaintiff’s favor.

Pretrial Mitigation Investigation and Case Development, Mineral Wells, Texas. Charge: Capital Murder. Outcome: Plea.

Pretrial Mitigating Circumstances and Dangerousness Evaluation, McAllen, Texas. Charge: Capital Murder. Outcome: Life verdict.

Dangerousness Evaluation of an Individual Adjudicated NGRI, Harris County District Attorney’s Office, Houston, Texas.

Appellate Level Mitigating Circumstances Evaluations, Ellis Unit - Death Row, Huntsville, Texas.

Clinical Identification of Violence Risk Factors, Rusk State Hospital, Rusk, Texas. Two day consultation requested by Rusk State Hospital aimed at educating this state, civil hospital about the identification and management of violence risk factors.

Competency to be Executed Evaluations, Ellis Unit - Death Row, Huntsville, Texas.