Jill H. Bohnenkamp, PhD, MEd

B.A. Georgetown University, Psychology

M.Ed., University of Virginia, Clinical and School Psychology

Ph.D., University of Virginia, Clinical and School Psychology

Internship, Children's National Health System, Washington, D.C., Child Clinical and Pediatric Psychology

Fellowship, National Center for School Mental Health, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Dr. Jill Haak Bohnenkamp is an Associate Professor and core faculty at the National Center for School for School Mental Health within the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Bohnenkamp has extensive experience in school mental health research, policy and clinical practice at the local, state and national levels. She works with individual school personnel, district, state and national leaders to advance high quality school mental health. Dr. Bohnenkamp builds on multiple years of direct clinical experience as a school mental health clinician in urban, suburban and rural school districts to inform her research and policy work. Her research focuses on behavioral, academic and school safety outcomes of school mental health service provision, mental health training for educators and pediatric primary care providers and ways to increase access to evidence-based mental health services for youth and families. Selected current roles include Principal Investigator on the CDC-funded National Initiative to Advance Health Equity in K-12 Education: Emotional Well-Being and UMB Principal Investigator on the Medicaid School-Based Services Technical Assistance Center. Dr. Bohnenkamp is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in the state of Maryland and supervises trainee research and clinical practice. 

School mental health, clinical child psychology, school psychology, mental health-education integration, mental health in pediatric primary care

Bohnenkamp, J., Patel, C., Connors, E., Orenstein, S., Ereshefsky, S., Lever, N. & Hoover, S. (2022). Evaluating Strategies to Promote Effective, Multidisciplinary Team Collaboration in School Mental Health. Journal of Applied School Psychology, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/15377903.2022.2077875

Bohnenkamp, J., Hartley, S., Splett, J.W., Halliday, C., Collins, D., Hoover, S. & Weist, M. (2022). Promoting School Safety through Positive Approaches to Support Student Mental Health. Preventing School Failure. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/1045988X.2022.2124221

Bohnenkamp, J., Hoover, S. & McCullough, S. (2022). Impact of an Online Course to Improve School Nurses’ Mental Health Competencies. Journal of School Nursing. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10598405221119518

Moore, S. A., Long, A., Coyle, S., Cooper, J., Mayworm, A., Amirazizi, S. Pannozzo, P., Miller, F., Eklund, K., Bohnenkamp, J., Edyburn, K.,  Whitcomb, S., Dowdy, E.,  & Raines, T. (2023). A Roadmap to Equitable School Mental Health Screening. Journal of School Psychology. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsp.2022.11.001

Sullivan, E., Cushing, K., Robinson, P., Fields, P & Bohnenkamp, J. (2021). Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Networks Improving the Quality of Pediatric Physical and Mental Health Care. Journal of Pediatrics and Child Health Care. 6(1): 1039.

Reaves, S., Bohnenkamp, J., Mayworm A., Sullivan, M., Connors, E., Lever, N., Kelly, M., Bruns, E., & Hoover, S. (2022). Associations Between School Mental Health Team Membership and Impact on Service Provision. School Mental Health, 14(3):672-684. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12310-021-09493-z