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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.
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— Participant
School Mental Health Course
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
Previous Events

October 30, 2014
Teen Depression
Webinar for Families for Depression Awareness

October 23, 2014
Clinical Case Conference 5: Impossible at School, Part 2: Consulting on Violent, Disruptive, and Highly Unusual Kids
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Annual Meeting
San Diego, CA
San Diego, CA

October 22, 2014
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
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Annual Meeting
San Diego, CA
San Diego, CA

October 09, 2014
Children of Suicide: In Her Wake
Webinar for National Alliance for Grieving Children

June 04, 2014
The Behavior Code: Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students
Youth at Risk conference, Essex County Community Foundation
Beverly, MA
Beverly, MA

May 30, 2014
Safety Assessments
Youth at Risk conference, Essex County Community Foundation
Beverly, MA
Beverly, MA

May 30, 2014
School Avoidance
The Education Cooperative
Dedham, MA
Dedham, MA

May 28, 2014
PTSD/Anxiety
Lincoln-Sudbury Public Schools
Sudbury, MA
Sudbury, MA

April 25, 2014
Working with Self-Destructive Adolescents: How to Manage Them While Taking Care of Yourself
How Young People Succeed: The Art and the Science conference
Danbury, CT
Danbury, CT

April 04, 2014
The Behavior Code: Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students
Northshore Education Consortium
Wakefield, MA
Wakefield, MA

April 01, 2014
The Behavior Code: Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students
Multiple venues across Poland
Poland
Poland

March 28, 2014
A Child Psychiatrist’s View of Her Mother’s Suicide
Menninger Symposium: The Problem of Suicide: Rediscovering Hope
Houston, TX
Houston, TX

March 11, 2014
The Behavior Code: Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students
Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Maine Medical Center
Portland, ME
Portland, ME

February 13, 2014
In Her Wake
Grand Rounds, Harvard University Health Services
Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, MA

February 12, 2014
School Avoidance
Lincoln-Sudbury Public Schools
Sudbury, MA
Sudbury, MA