About the Author


   Robert F. Stadolnik, EdD, is President of Fire Psych, Inc., a specialized psychological practice in Norwood, Massachusetts providing assessment and treatment services to juvenile firesetters. He is a licensed psychologist whose practice specialties include child, adolescent and family psychology. Dr. Stadolnik provides supervision, consultation and training regarding firesetting behaviors on a local, state and national level. In 1992, he cofounded the Westwood (MA) Firesetting Intervention Project (with Chief John Sheehy of the Westwood Fire Department). Dr. Stadolnik has been a member of the Massachusetts State-Wide Coalition for Juvenile Firesetter Intervention Programs since 1993. In 1996, he established the Mental Health Task Force within that coalition to develop, enhance and coordinate the integration of mental health services in multidisciplinary firesetting intervention sites throughout the state; and he served as Chair of that Task Force from 1996 to 2000. Dr. Stadolnik is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Massachusetts Psychological Association.