CONSULTATION
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
Lecturer – Nationwide
Professional Seminar Leader: Presented multi-state seminar series on the ‘Overindulged Child’. Day-long professional seminar offered to attorneys, physicians, teachers, mental health professionals.
DEVEREUX FOUNDATION – DEERHAVEN
Consulting Clinical Psychologist Chester, NJ
Consultation with all residential services including Social Workers, Child Care Workers, Maintenance, Vocational and Classroom Teachers. Focus on staff relations and staff training.
MELAND FOUNDATION FOR PARENT EDUCATION
Consultant & Lecturer Harrington Park, NJ
Development and implementation of parent-child management programs. Parent group education in wide range of parent/child conflicts, and child development problems.
CHILDREN’S AID & ADOPTION SOCIETY
Consulting Clinical Psychologist Hackensack, NJ
GOLDEN ARTIST COLORS, INC.
Executive Trainer & Line Staff Instructor New Berlin, NY
Evaluation and development of individual programs to enhance the job performance of executives and line staff.
Director of Child Study Team. Consultation regarding clients residing in Group Homes, Independent Living facilities and Foster Homes. Developed parenting programs for Foster Parents of adolescent children. Consultation regarding professional staff relations. Developed, implemented and evaluated conflict resolution procedures for child care staffs in the various residential centers.
SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
NEW JERSEY BAR ASSOCIATION’S “FOCUS ON THE FAMILY”
Executive Committee Member
Committee of the Family Law Section Executive Committee, Purpose: The creation and implementation of pilot, experimental programs on a state-wide basis for the purpose of improving the quality of family and individual life in the State of New Jersey.
CENTER FOR BEHAVIOR CHANGE
Founder and Director
Developed and implemented multi-course group educational programs for self improvement in the following areas: weight reduction, smoking cessation, assertiveness training, phobia reduction, relaxation, and stress reduction programs, and sexual dysfunction. Staffed by five consulting psycho-educational specialists. Solicitation by paid advertisement, physician referrals, and self referrals.
PUBLIC APPEARANCES
Seminars and workshops throughout the New York Metropolitan area on Child Developmental Disorders, Child Abuse, Parent Training, Divorce and Children of Divorce, School Management of Behavior Disorders. Audiences have included Teachers, Nurses, School Administrators, Parents, Physicians, Social Workers, Psychologists, and Clergy. Audiences have ranged from small groups to several hundred attendees.
MEDIA
Dr.Golden’s professional writings have included columns in Sixteen and Penelope and Letters magazines, as well as other regional newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, Record, Suburbanite, New Jersey Singles.
Writer’s Cramp Productions
Screenwriter and creative director of Writer’s Cramp. As such, Dr. Golden has written several full-length animated features, The Ark, and The Glorious Easter Eggs. Two of the most important events in man’s history, the Great Biblical Flood, and the Easter celebration are presented in a fascinating, joyful and a beautiful animation. The scripts appeal to both children and adults. Never has there been such a unique take on both momentous events. The Ark features the life saving heroics of the famous Biblical Dove and the Raven, while the renowned Easter Bunny and his Glorious Easter Eggs, allows the movie audience to experience the beauty of the world’s most famous artists.
Reflections of A Shrink
Dr. Golden’s collection of essays is entitled, Reflections of a Shrink. Essays that touch on our most intimate feelings and fantasies but all seen through the reflections of many years as a Clinical Psychologist. From the layettes of infancy and the celebration of birth to the loneliness of dying, Dr. Golden captures the essence of life’s fleeting joys, and sorrows, but always with a spirit of good-will, hope, and his ever present touch of humor.
Overweight is a Family Affair
A revolutionary approach to weight control, in his forthcoming book, Overweight is a Family Affair. The bedeviling issues of the obese child are no longer the burden of the child, but appropriately the concern of one’s entire family. Not another dietary manual, but rather a complete family based program that accurately places all the concerns about weight control in the hands of parents and children alike. A child’s will power is no longer seen as the road to health, but rather the joint efforts of the entire household hold the key to health and well-being.
TELEVISION
Dr. Golden’s television appearances include ABC’s Good Morning New York; NBC’s John Davidson Show; Arts & Entertainment Network’s Women’s Day. Dr. Golden has been a frequent guest on Court TV’s Both Sides, and Court TV with Nancy Grace.
The Dr. Tom Golden Show
Dr. Golden was the producer and the host of “The Dr. Tom Golden” cable show. The live talk show featured invited guests, studio audiences as well as phone-in callers. Shows featured such topics as: Death and Dying, Divorce-Yesterday and Today, Why Abortion, Child Sexual Abuse, Occupational Starting Over, Looking for a Good Marriage, Eating Disorders, Intermarriage – Racial and Religious and the Rights of Grandparents.
Stage
As a singer and actor, Dr. Golden has performed in radio, television, Broadway road shows, niteclubs and summer stock. He was featured in the lead role of Birdie in two national road companies of Bye, Bye, Birdie. Performed the male leading roles in, L’il Abner, Say Darling, and The Bells are Ringing. Dr. Golden is the lead singer of “The Doctors.” A unique entertainment group composed of a Shrink, Pharmacist, Opthamologist, and Chiropractor. The CD, Tom Golden Sings for the Joy of It, is available at no cost.
BUSINESS ACCOMPLISHMENTS
SOUP’S ON
Founder and Owner Hackensack , NJ
As a business person and entrepreneur, Dr. Golden was the co-founder of New York’s most successful gourmet soup vending company, “Soups On”, and its’ subsidiary wholesale soup company, “Suzon”. Dr. Golden trained vendors from the four corners of the world, and when needed he negotiated vending rules and regulations with the Mayoral and Health Departments of the City of New York. The soups won fame on the street, in food reviews in the New York Times, and on radio and T.V. throughout the world. The soup line was soon followed by a gourmet menu of salads, fruit soups, and a wide variety of unique stews. Dr. Golden developed the marketing plan and introduced the various products into such gourmet shops as Graces Market Place, Dean and Deluca, Burkes and Balducci’s. The soups and salads were also featured in Gristedes, Kings Supermarkets, and Macy’s Gourmet Shops.
GOLDEN ARTIST COLORS
Director International Sales Worldwide
On the international business front, Dr. Golden was the Director of International Sales for Golden Artist Colors. Initially unknown in the international market but through his efforts, Golden Artist Colors has become the global leader in acrylic paints. Dr. Golden opened fine art outlets throughout Western Europe, the Far East, and Central and South America. The acrylics are the choice of the world’s most renowned artists, including Jenkins, Schnabel, Olitski, Noland, Stella, and Dale Chihuli. Golden Artist Colors were featured in the movie “Pollack”.
SAM & ADELE GOLDEN FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS
Board Member – Vice President New Berlin, NY
The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts was founded exclusively for the charitable purpose of fostering innovative artistic expression and the creative process. As a Board Member, Mr. Golden has worked with a virtual who’s-who of world-renowned artists, as well as with such organizations as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Holocaust Museum, and The Smithsonian Institution.
AFFILIATIONS
- Assistant Professor Kean College of New Jersey 1970-1979
- Adjunct Professor City College of New York – 1970
- Adjunct Field Supervisor Antioch College – 1973
- Consultant Child Development Center Hackensack Hospital 1970-1979
- Consultant New Jersey Association for Retarded Children 1970-1979
- Staff Psychologist & Instructor Center Mental Retardation, New York Medical College 1969-1970
- Consulting School Psychologist Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey Public School 1970-1973
- Teacher of Special Education New York City Board of Education 1963-1965
- Court Appointed Expert Family Courts of Bergen County, New Jersey – Current
- Evaluating Psychologist New York District Attorney Offices – Current
PROFESSIONAL LICENSES & MEMBERSHIPS
- Psychologist, Florida (Provisional)
- Licensed Clinical Psychologist, New Jersey #850
- Certified School Psychologist, New Jersey
- American Psychological Association (Life Member Status)
- National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology
- Society of Pediatric Psychologists (Charter Member)
- Division of Child, Youth and Family Services
- Division of Family Psychology
- Division of Clinical Child Psychology, APA Panel member Clinical Psychologist, Medicare, Medicaid, and major HMO and PPO’s.