{"id":22215,"date":"2016-07-05T11:27:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T15:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=22215"},"modified":"2025-10-05T18:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T22:58:15","slug":"jennifer-greif-green","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/profile\/jennifer-greif-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Greif Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jennifer Greif Green is a professor in special education and a child clinical psychologist at Boston University Wheelock College of Education &amp; Human Development. Her research focuses on supporting student mental health and well-being. She conducts studies on teacher identification of students with mental health needs and reducing racial\/ethnic disparities in mental health service access, and she has evaluated school-based mental health promotion activities and bullying prevention programs. She also co-directs the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bullying\">Social Adjustment &amp; Bullying Prevention Laboratory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Green partners with a number of local schools and districts in her research. Her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Justice, Centers for Disease Control, Office of Special Education Programs, Spencer Foundation, MetroWest Community Health Foundation, and Deborah Munroe Noonan Memorial Research Fund.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"profile-section-label\">Recent News<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2025\/scholarly-accomplishments-october-2025\/\">Scholarly Accomplishments October 2025<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2025\/shifting-narrative-middle-school-youth\/\">Shifting the Narrative on Middle School Youth<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2025\/bu-wheelock-announces-2025-faculty-awards\/\">BU Wheelock Announces 2025 Faculty Awards<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2024\/can-we-make-school-safe-and-supportive-for-all\/\">Can We Make School Safe and Supportive for All?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2023\/three-bu-wheelock-faculty-promoted-to-full-professor\/\">Three BU Wheelock Faculty Promoted to Full Professor\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2022\/promoting-strength-and-resilience-among-transgender-and-nonbinary-adolescents\/\">Promoting Strength and Resilience among Transgender and Nonbinary Adolescents<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/magazine\/articles\/2022\/why-do-teens-from-marginalized-populations-get-bullied\/\">Why Do Teens From Marginalized Populations Get Bullied?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2022\/teachers-have-an-important-role-to-play-in-childrens-mental-health\/\">Teachers Have an Important Role to Play in Children\u2019s Mental Health<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2022\/qa-how-a-sense-of-belonging-in-schools-supports-transgender-and-gender-diverse-youth\/\">How a Sense of Belonging in Schools Supports Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2020\/partnership-supports-covid-19-stress-education-course-for-schools\/\">Partnership Supports COVID-19 Stress Education Course for Schools<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"profile-section-label\">In the Media<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2025\/whats-behind-rise-in-violence-against-teachers\/\">What\u2019s Behind the Rise in Violence Against Teachers?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/leadership\/netflixs-adolescence-sounds-an-alarm-on-troubled-teens-what-can-teachers-do\/2025\/04\">Netflix\u2019s \u2018Adolescence\u2019 Sounds an Alarm on Troubled Teens. What Can Teachers Do?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2024\/should-schools-be-required-to-have-threat-assessment-teams\/\">After Georgia Shooting, Should Schools Be Required to Have Threat Assessment Teams?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boston25news.com\/news\/25-investigates\/25-investigates-data-policing-ma-schools-is-spotty-mental-health-needs-rise\/CMWZFJSU6VDRFLDKU6I4PAB32Y\/\">Data on Policing in MA Schools is Spotty as Mental Health Needs Rise<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2023\/how-will-anti-trans-laws-impact-transgender-and-gender-diverse-youth-mental-health\/\">How Will Anti-Trans Laws Impact Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth Mental Health?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/k12\/articles\/what-to-know-about-cyberbullying\">What to Know about Cyberbullying<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/teachers-often-struggle-to-address-mass-traumatic-events-in-class-183958\">Teachers Often Struggle to Address Mass Traumatic Events in Class<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2022\/how-teachers-and-parents-should-talk-about-uvalde-school-shooting-with-children\/\">How Should Teachers and Parents Talk about the Uvalde School Shooting with Their Children?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcboston.com\/news\/local\/recent-incidents-of-violence-in-mass-schools-raise-questions-for-parents\/2719102\/\">Recent Incidents of Violence in Mass. Schools Raise Questions for Parents<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":11825,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/22215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11825"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/22215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80991,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/22215\/revisions\/80991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}