Nadja Reilly, PhD and Vanessa Prosper, PhD, instructors

In this program, participants will learn about the Break Free From Depression curriculum, a 4-session school-based curriculum developed to address adolescent depression.  Through presentations and interactive exercises, participants will learn how to use, teach and implement this curriculum in their schools and/or communities.  Curriculum materials and a documentary on adolescent depression will be provided at no charge.  Training is open and free of charge to professionals working with high school students, including teachers, nurses, guidance counselors, mental health clinicians and others.

Specific learning objectives:

a)    Participants will learn different strategies for introducing a prevention program into their schools

b)    Participants will learn about the symptoms of anxiety and depression in high school students

c)    Participants will learn how to implement the Break Free From Depression curriculum in their schools

Program Code: TT12
5 CE Credits
Location: at MSPP, West Roxbury/Boston

Nadja Reilly, PhD, Associate Director of the Freedman Center for Child and Family Development, Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology.

Vanessa Prosper, PhD, Staff Psychologist at Children’s Hospital Boston.

Drs. Reilly and Prosper are licensed psychologists with specialties in children, families, community psychology and prevention.