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
- Getting Back in the Door: School and Family Strategies for School Avoidant 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
School Mental Health: Treating Students K- 12
Fairmont Copley Plaza, Boston, MA
Mental health issues among school-aged children and adolescents have continued to overwhelm students, schools and communities. The impacts are far reaching—from academic performance and financial challenges to long-term public health outcomes and societal well-being. With schools being a primary access point for mental health screening and services for many children, the school setting can offer prime opportunities for early identification, treatment, and coordination of care.
Mental health professionals in and out of educational systems can play a key role in addressing the mental health crisis. Still, too many of us struggle to stay up to date on changing diagnosis, treatment, and best practice guidelines in school settings. To promote the best outcomes, providers need guidance on screening and treatment tools, care coordination, referral pathways, and larger systemic strategies.
Our popular course is designed to offer participants the latest clinical information and practical strategies that address current topics in school mental health through a mix of lectures, case studies, lived experience, interactive panels and Q&A. Faculty this year will discuss working with families, supporting high-achieving students, poverty’s impact on developing brains, autism, play therapy, boys’ crisis of connection, effective CBT techniques, the experience of being black in school, measurement-based care strategies, culturally responsive care for immigrant students, pornography, gaming, and more!
Each year we strive to create a warm, energizing and fun learning experience to enhance connection and networking among attendees. We welcome all mental health and health clinicians, educators, school administrators, researchers, and others interested in the development and treatment of school-aged children and adolescents to join us in 2026!
Previous Events
"Impossible" at School: Consulting on Violent, Disruptive, and Highly Unusual Kids
Orlando, FL
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
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