In addition to sharing valuable insights, Nancy’s conversational tone and ability to show vulnerability in her practice brings her listeners in, creates a space for empathy and learning, and inspires us to connect at a deeper level with more people. And, one hopes, we will all make a bigger impact because of that.
”School Mental Health Course
Dr. Rappaport is available to speak or conduct longer workshops upon request on topics including the following:
- The Behavior Code: Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students
- Resilience: Understanding and Teaching Challenging Children Without Burnout
- Compassion, Burnout, and Empathic Fatigue: Building Resilience in Our Patients and Ourselves
- “Is This Student Safe to Return?” A Comprehensive School Safety Assessment Approach
- After a Suicide: Helping Children Heal
- Teen Depression: What Parents, Schools, and Communities Can Do
- Finding Our Way: Healing Our Traumatized Children
- The Power of Reflection: The Role of Narrative in Medicine
Upcoming Events


Keeping Our Schools Safe: What Every Educator Should Know About Safety Assessment
This webinar presents an overview of a comprehensive school safety assessment approach for students whose behavior raises concern about their potential for violence. This presentation will draw from Dr. Rappaport’s research and clinical work as a child psychiatrist consulting to schools to present a model that can help prevent school violence while getting students and families the services they need. Targeted school violence is rare, making schools relatively safe places. However, every school must assess be familiar with basic concepts for quickly and comprehensively assessing the safety of students who are volatile and may make threats, write a hit list, destroy property, or post concerning content online. The safety assessment model emphasizes understanding the context of the behavior and helping adults mobilize the resources needed to address the student’s and family’s needs and enhance the student’s safety, connection, and well-being. The content will draw from Dr. Rappaport’s publications, research, and experience with safety assessments in schools, as well as the work of the Safe Schools Initiative, Cornell & Sheras, and others.
Previous Events

Picking up the Pieces: Working with Families Left Behind after a Suicide
Boston, MA

Regeneration
260 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA

Regeneration
Irvington, NY

Regeneration
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA

Regeneration
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA

Regeneration
Hurwitz Auditorium at Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA

The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching Our Most Challenging Students
Marlborough, MA

Children of Suicide: In Her Wake

Memoirs Can Be Messy: The Delicate Balance of Writing About Family
Iowa City, IA

Is This Student Safe to Return to School?”: Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists’ and Psychologists’ Roles in Threat Assessments for Students at Risk for Violence
New York, NY

Helping Struggling Students: Resiliency Strategies for Parents, Teachers, and Clinicians
Boston, MA

School Avoidance: Getting the Student in the Door
Hopkinton, MA

Teen Depression

Clinical Case Conference 5: Impossible at School, Part 2: Consulting on Violent, Disruptive, and Highly Unusual Kids
San Diego, CA

Clinical Perspectives 24: Is This Student Safe to Return to School? The Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist's Role in Threat Assessments for Students at Risk for Violence
San Diego, CA