Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center
 John Boekamp, PhD
- Co-director Bradley Hospital FireSafe Families Program
- Clinical assistant professor in the department of psychiatry and human behavior at theWarren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Background Information
John Boekamp, PhD, is the vice chair of the Rhode Island Juvenile Firesetter Intervention Coalition, which is a network of state, local, and private agencies. As part of his training responsibilities at Brown Medical School, Boekamp teaches and/or supervises predoctoral clinical psychology externs, postdoctoral clinical psychology fellows, adult psychiatry residents, child psychiatry and triple board fellows
Boekamp earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his doctorate in clinical psychology from Case Western Reserve University. He completed his predoctoral clinical psychology internship at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Boekamp subsequently completed a fellowship in child and adolescent psychopathology at the Cambridge Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Afterward, Boekamp completed a postdoctoral fellowship in child and adolescent clinical psychology at Bradley Hospital and the Brown University clinical psychology training consortium.
Currently, Boekamp is the clinical director of the Pediatric Partial Hospital Program, a family centered, intensive day treatment program for very young children (newborn to age 6) who have serious emotional, behavioral or relationship disturbances. Boekamp is also the co-director of Bradley Hospital’s FireSafe Families Program, which serves the families of Rhode Island children who have been involved in firesetting.
Research Interests
Boekamp’s current clinical and research interests focus on serious emotional, behavioral and relationship disturbances in early childhood, firesetting behavior in childhood, and treatment outcome and program evaluation.
Boekamp’s interests also include the linkages between emotional development and relationship functioning and the development of psychopathology in early childhood, as well as how emotion and relationship factors relate to treatment process and outcome in an intensive day treatment program.
He has presented extensively to professional organizations within Rhode Island in the areas of juvenile firesetting, early childhood feeding disorders, attachment disorders and day treatment for young children. Boekamp has been active in developing linkages among community service providers and child systems of care.
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