Firesetting Behavior Resources

Roe-Sepowitz, D. and Hickle, K. (2011). Comparing boy and girl arsonists: crisis, family, and crime scene characteristics.  Legal and Criminological Psychology. 16. 277-288.

Sambrooks, K., Tyler, N. & Gannon, T. (2024). Single versus multiple firesetting: An examination of demographic, behavioural, and psychological factors. Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law. Vol 0, No. 0, 1-26.

Stadolnik, R., (2000). Drawn to the Flame: Assessment and Treatment of Juvenile 

Firesetting Behavior. Sarasota, FL. Professional Resource Press.  

Stadolnik, R. & Manela, T. (2011). Is She Cinderella or the Wicked Witch?: Adolescent female 

firesetting. Hot Issues. Oregon State Fire Marshal. Portland, Oregon. pp 4-6. 

Stadolnik, R. (2015). Promising practice in the development of assessment and treatment models for juvenile firesetting/arson. In R. Doley, G. Dickens, and T. Gannon (Eds), The Psychology of Arson: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Managing Deliberate Firesetters.  Routledge. 

Tyler, N. & Foster, J.E. (in press). Child and youth firesetting: “A common, costly, and complex 

problem”. In N. Tyler and J.E. Foster (Eds),  International Perspectives on Youth Firesetting: Advances in Research and Practice. Routledge.

San Diego Burn Institute

http://www.burninstitute.org/

American Burn Association

http://www.ameriburn.org/

Adult Deliberate Firesetting: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment

T. Gannon, N. Tyler, C. O’Ciardha, & E. Alleyne (Eds.) (2022)

Collins, J., Barnoux, M., & Langdon, P. (2022).  A preliminary firesetting offence chain for adults with intellectual and other developmental disabilities.  J of Intellectual and Developmental Disability.   https://doi.org/10.3109/13668250.2022.2037186

Gannon, T. A., & Lockerbie, L. (2014). Firesetting intervention programme for mentally disordered offenders (FIP‐MO) version 2.0. CORE‐FP, University of Kent and Kent forensic psychiatry services, NHS.

Gannon, T. A., Ó Ciardha, C., Doley, R. M., & Alleyne, E. (2012). The multi‐ trajectory theory of adult firesetting (M‐TTAF). Aggression and Violent Behavior, 17(2), 107-121.

Nanayakkara, V. & Ogloff, R.P. (2015). From haystacks to hospitals: An evolving understanding of mental disorder and firesetting. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health.  14. 66-75.

Sambrooks, K., Tyler, N. & Gannon, T. (2024). Single versus multiple firesetting: an examination of demographic, behavioral, and psychological factors.

Taylor, J. & Thorne, I. (2019).  Assessing firesetters with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour. 10(4). 102-118.

Tyler, N., Gannon, T., Lockerbie, L., & O’Ciardha C.  (2017). An evaluation of a specialist firesetting treatment programme for male and female mentally disordered offenders (the FIP-MO). Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. 25(3)