Jon Goodwin

Background

About Jon Goodwin

Jon Goodwin, PhD is an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Jon earned his PhD in Psychological and Quantitative Foundations from the APA-accredited school psychology program at the University of Iowa. Upon finishing his doctoral training, Jon then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Belin-Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development at the University Iowa, where he provided comprehensive psychoeducational assessment and counseling services to students with advanced cognitive ability, including “twice-exceptional” students (i.e, students who are gifted and have one or more disabilities that impact scholastic functioning). Following his postdoctoral fellowship, Jon remained at the Belin-Blank Center as a licensed psychologist while maintaining a visiting faculty appointment with the University of Iowa’s counseling psychology PhD program, where he taught courses on intelligence assessment, developmental psychopathology, and advanced supervision. Prior to joining the faculty at UCSB, Jon was a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa, where he specialized in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other neurodevelopmental disorders. In his current role, Jon provides clinical training and supervision to doctoral- and specialist-level school psychology students. As an academic psychologist specializing in developmental neuropsychology, Jon’s scholarly interests include the assessment of learning differences and the cognitive functioning of children with craniofacial disorders.