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Dr Sarron Goldman

Senior Lecturer

Current Teaching

• COU0101/1101/5111 Dynamic models of counselling
• COU3105/01008/5108 Psychodynamic concepts in practice
• COU5110 – Advanced counselling skills
• COU5321 – Clinical practice 1 (unit coordinator)
• Coordination of the undergraduate and postgraduate Counselling and Psychotherapy programs on and offshore.

Background

• A practising clinical psychologist in the field for over two decades.
• Special interest in psychoanalysis.
• Principally a clinician, he has also long been involved in the training of mental health professionals (psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, social workers etc.).
• Previously he worked as an academic in the School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Western Australia (Perth); the Psychology Department Midrand University and the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg).

Professional Memberships

• Specialist Clinical Psychologist registered with the Australia Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
• Fully registered member of the Australian Psychological Society (A.P.S.)
• Fully registered member of the Clinical College of the Australian Psychological Society (A.P.S.)
• Fully registered member of the Australian Clinical Psychology Association (ACPA)
• Full clinical member of the Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists of Western Australia (APPWA)
• Registered member of Psychoanalytic Studies Association of Australasia (PSAA)
• Full professional member – The Balint Society of Australia
• Registered professional member of the Western Australian Interest Group of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (IGPOP)
• Full clinical member Psychotherapy and Counselling Association of Western Australia (PACAWA)
• Full member – The International Balint Society
• Full clinical member – The International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

• Psychoanalysis/psychodynamic forms of clinical practice broadly
• Psychology of the internet
• The relationship between culture and the intrapsychic
• Psycho-legal disputes concerning “the best interests of the minor child”
• The psychological consequences of third party care
• Men and masculinity
• Online teaching and learning

Staff Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy, South Africa .
• Master of Arts, South Africa, 1992 .
• Bachelor of Arts, South Africa, 1987 .
• Bachelor of Arts, South Africa, 1986 .

Recent Publications (within the last five years)

Book Chapters

• Goldman, S., (2012), When empathy fails to eventuate in the counseling therapeutic session: Implications for the training and practice of students. University teaching and faculty development research compendiu,, New York.

Journal Articles

• Taylor, M., Goldman, S., (2011), When empathy mails to eventuate in the counselling therapeutic session: Implications for the training and practice of students. International Journal of University Teaching and Faculty Development, 1(3), 171-182.

Conference Publications

• Goldman, S., (2008), "Everyone is doing it; no one is talking about it": an Australian case example of teaching first psychoanalytic concepts with online assisted technologies. Eculture Conference, ECU Joondalup, 7.
• Goldman, S., (2008), Teaching applied psychoanalytic concepts with online assited technologies: an Australian case example. Educause Australasia, 11, EDUCAUSE Australasia Conference.
• Goldman, S., (2008), Towards a deepened understanding of `the making of men?: a new research methodological approach. Men's Advisory Network. National Conference 2008 : Fremantle, (W.A.) 2008 From babies to blokes, the making of men : program and papers .