Dr. Robert Stadolnik is a licensed psychologist with over three decades of experience specializing in the assessment, treatment, and prevention of problem firesetting among youth and adults. Since February 1999, Dr. Stadolnik has served as President of FirePsych, Inc., a specialized psychology practice based in Massachusetts, and has completed or supervised over 1,500 firesetting behavior evaluations for children, adolescents, and adults between the ages of 5 and 75. His clinical leadership experience includes facilitating research, program development, and providing ongoing training and clinical supervision to support evidence-informed practice in youth and adult firesetting assessment and intervention.
Robert Stadolnik, Ed.D., President of FirePsych
Dr. Stadolnik is the author of the "Firesetting Risk Assessment Tool-Youth Version" (FRAT-Y), published in 2010, which remains the only structured decision-making assessment tool specific to youth firesetting. Dr. Stadolnik authored
Drawn to the Flame: Assessment and Treatment of Juvenile Firesetting Behavior (2000), and “Promising practice in the development of assessment and treatment models for juvenile firesetting” in The Psychology of Arson: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Managing Deliberate Firesetters (2015). Most recently, Dr. Stadolnik is a co-author of an upcoming chapter on youth firesetting risk assessment in the volume "International Perspectives on Youth Firesetting: Advances in Research and Practice," edited by N. Tyler and J.E. Foster. Dr. Stadolnik previously served as Consulting Psychologist for Brandon Residential Treatment Center in Natick, MA, where he led program development for the Rapid Firesetting Assessment Program and the Intensive Firesetting Treatment Program for boys ages 7–17 in a long-term residential setting.
Since 2005, Dr. Stadolnik has provided clinical and program consultation to forensic and psychiatric hospitals and community agencies in the assessment and treatment of SMI/DD adults with arson/firesetting histories. Since 2019, he has served as Consulting Psychologist to the combined psychology staff of Whiting Forensic Hospital and Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown, CT, in the development and implementation of the only MTTAF/FIP-MO-guided assessment and treatment program for inpatient adults in the United States. Dr. Stadolnik is a founding member of the International Association for Firesetting Intervention, Research and Education (IFIRE) and trains nationally and internationally on youth and adult firesetting.