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
Taking Charge of Your Emotions: Parent Guidance for DBT Skills
In this interactive workshop with Dr. Claire Bogan and Dr. Nancy Rappaport, emotional regulation skills for teens will be presented. These concrete strategies taught in this webinar will be guided by “DBT Skills Manual for Adolescents*” and are designed to support emotion regulation skill development both in school and at home. Resources to support parents/guardians with home practice will be provided during this session.
School Safety Assessments with Case
Online OR at the Fairmont Copley Plaza
Presented with Dr. Sarah Goodrum.
Building a Culture of Safety in Classrooms: Awareness, Assessment, and Monitoring
More than ever educators recognize the importance of identifying and supporting students experiencing mental or behavioral health challenges. Dr. Rappaport and Dr. Goodrum will discuss the ways educators can promote a culture of safety in their schools and classrooms by recognizing the warning signs for mental or behavioral health challenges, conducting threat assessments to evaluate and manage students of concern, and sharing information to support the students’ reintegration and success (or prevent any potential decline).
Previous Events
Accepting the Challenge: Understanding and Educating Students with Behavioral, Attentional and Emotional Learning Needs
Worcester, MA
In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Impact of Her Mother’s Life and Suicide
Vail, CO
Working with Suicidal Teens: Approach, Connection, Fluidity, and Collaboration with Parent and Teen
Vail, CO
The Behavior Code: Practical Tips for Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students
Providence, RI
The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students
Boston, MA
Real World Strategies for Working with Challenging Students
Needham, MA
Improving the Odds for Children's Safety In Schools: Lessons Learned
Newark, NJ
The Behavior Code: Practical Strategies for Understanding and Teaching Students with Anxiety-Related and Disruptive Behavior
Newton, MA
The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students
Real-World Strategies for Understanding and Teaching Challenging Students
Boston, MA
I Didn’t Mean to…: The Student with Sexualized Behavior
Building Connections and Hope: What Families, Schools, and Communities Can Do to Support Youth with Depression During the Pandemic and Beyond:
Participants will be able to:
- Recognize signs and symptoms of depression in teens
- List strategies for connecting with and supporting teens, including those with trauma histories and those with depression, during the pandemic
- Describe steps to take when concerned a teen is having suicidal thoughts
Supporting Youth with Depression During the Pandemic and Beyond: What Families, Schools, and Communities Can Do
Dr. Rappaport will discuss what depression may look like in teens at home and at school, how to proceed when concerned a teen may be suicidal, and how to connect with and support teens with depression during the pandemic and beyond. She will also discuss how building resilience in ourselves and in the teens in our lives allows us to boost our, and their, capacity to endure and perhaps even thrive during uncertain and challenging times. Her talk is based on her many years of clinical experience and experience translating psychiatric concepts into easy actionable steps for educators and families.
Participants will be able to:
- Recognize signs and symptoms of depression in teens
- List strategies for connecting with and supporting teens, including those with trauma histories and those with depression, during the pandemic
- Describe steps to take when concerned a teen is having suicidal thoughts
