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
- Advocating for Patients and Educating about Suicide: Drawing from Personal and Clinical Experience
Upcoming Events

Keeping Our Schools Safe: A Safety Assessment Approach to Violence
Child psychiatrists, whether consulting to schools or providing services in private practice or an emergency room, are increasingly asked to make judgments about students’ safety. Thus, it is imperative that they are familiar with the research on assessing student threats, broaden their knowledge base of the standard safety/threat assessment process, and understand the critical information needed for this process. This presentation provides an overview of a comprehensive school safety assessment approach for students whose behavior raises concern about their potential for violence, presenting a model that can help prevent school violence while getting students and families the services they need. Participants will better understand the multi-faceted role that child psychiatrists, working in a variety of settings, can play in building a school culture of safety, performing school threat assessment and responding appropriately, facilitating communication and connection to needed services, and supporting students, families, and educators.
Previous Events

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

Children of Suicide: In Her Wake

The Behavior Code: Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students
Beverly, MA

Safety Assessments
Beverly, MA

School Avoidance
Dedham, MA

PTSD/Anxiety
Sudbury, MA

Working with Self-Destructive Adolescents: How to Manage Them While Taking Care of Yourself
Danbury, CT

The Behavior Code: Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students
Wakefield, MA