The conference is organized into nine main subject tracks to help participants find areas of interest. During the proposal submission process, each proposal submitter selected one category to best describe their session. AATA uses these categories for the final Program Guide.
Clinical Approaches
Sessions that present information on therapeutic best practices, case studies, and art therapy techniques and methods. Includes Addictions/Substance Abuse (AS), Child/Adolescents (CA), Forensics (FS), Geriatrics (GE), Medical Settings (MS), Psychiatric Settings (PS), and School Settings (SS).
Advanced Practice Courses and Workshops have limited seats and require additional registration and fees. All other sessions (e.g. panels, papers, performances, and videos) are included as part of conference registration and do not need additional registration.
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- Medical Settings
- Addictions/Substance
- Child/Adolescents
- Forensics
- Geriatrics
- Psychiatric Settings
- School Settings
| Track | Course Code | Title | Presenters | Type | Content Level | Date | Time |
| Medical Settings | MS16 | The REPAT Intervention: An 8 Week Art Therapy Protocol | Johanna Czamanski-Cohen | All-Day Advanced Practice Course | Intermediate to Advanced | 10/14 | 9 am |
| Medical Settings | MS162 | I Was Able to Gain Insight: Art Therapy for Burn Rehabilitation | Bani Malhotra | Paper | Beginner | 10/15 | 2 pm |
| Medical Settings | MS70 | Bridging Regulation and Readiness: The Role of Art Therapy in Pediatric Oncology | Katie Hinson Sullivan, Madeline Centracchio, Katja Lackey | Paper | Intermediate to Advanced | 10/15 | 3 pm |
| Medical Settings | MS59 | Therapeutic Containment in Medical Art Therapy | Callie Barker | Workshop | Beginner | 10/15 | 3 pm |
| Medical Settings | MS36 | Creativity at the Threshold: Art Therapy in Hospice Care | Amy Rostollan-Hamman | Paper | Beginner | 10/16 | 12 pm |
| Medical Settings | MS31 | Wires, Warmth, and Healing: A Thoughtful Approach to NICU Art Therapy Programs | Janette Macias | Paper | Intermediate to Advanced | 10/16 | 3 pm |
| Medical Settings | MS133 | Implementing Pediatric Group Art Therapy for Medically Hospitalized Patients with Psychiatric Comorbidity | Erin Arsenault | Poster | Intermediate to Advanced | 10/16 | 4 pm |
| Medical Settings | MS185 | Bento Box Art: A Mindfulness Group Art Therapy Approach for Medical Professionals | E. Spencer Powers, Emily McElmurry | Paper | Intermediate to Advanced | 10/17 | 11 am |
| Medical Settings | MS155 | In-Patient Medical Art Therapy: Practice, Considerations, and Developments, 2004-Current | Julie Combal | Paper | Intermediate to Advanced | 10/17 | 12 pm |
| Medical Settings | MS159 | Creative Arts Therapies Staffing and Coverage In A Pediatric Hospital | Sadie Carpenter, Halle Nick | Paper | Beginner | 10/17 | 3 pm |
| Track | Course Code | Title | Presenters | Type | Content Level | Date | Time |
| Addictions/Substance | AS62 | Art Therapy Neuroscience Suggests Help for Addiction and Trauma | Patricia Quinn | Paper | Intermediate to Advanced | 10/17 | 3 pm |
| Track | Course Code | Title | Presenters | Type | Content Level | Date | Time |
| Child/Adolescents | CA206 | Exploring Your Inner Superhero: Using art and role play techniques with ADHD | Deborah Adler | Half-Day Advanced Practice Course | Intermediate to Advanced | 10/14 | 9 am |
| Child/Adolescents | CA43 | Listening to Fathers Unheard Voices: Group Parent-Child Art Psychotherapy involving Woodworking | Shira Meshulam Heskia, Noga Saranga Rockowitz | Workshop | Intermediate to Advanced | 10/15 | 2:15 pm |
| Child/Adolescents | CA234 | Exploring Intersections of Art and Play Therapy for Neurodivergent Children | Alex Haller, Emily King, Tisha Moon | Panel | Intermediate to Advanced | 10/15 | 2:15 pm |
| Child/Adolescents | CA89 | Nature-Based Symbolic Art Therapy With Children: The Katarzisz Method | Fatin Szűcs | Paper | Intermediate to Advanced | 10/17 | 2 pm |
| Track | Course Code | Title | Presenters | Type | Content Level | Date | Time |
| Forensics | FS64 | Relational Art Therapy in Carceral Contexts: Practice-Based Research with Expressive Post | Hayley Arjona | Paper | Intermediate to Advanced | 10/15 | 3 pm |
| Track | Course Code | Title | Presenters | Type | Date | Time |
| Track | Course Code | Title | Presenters | Type | Content Level | Date | Time |
| Psychiatric Settings | PS168 | Interpreting Patient Artwork and Therapeutic Process: A Relational Psychoanalytic Clinical Approach | Brandon Colle | Workshop | Intermediate to Advanced | 10/16 | 2:15 pm |
| Psychiatric Settings | PS136 | Relational Art Therapy in Inpatient Psychiatry-Building Connection Within Institutional Bounds | Layne Goldman | Paper | Beginner | 10/17 | 12 pm |
| Psychiatric Settings | PS166 | Rooted ethics, rising voices: Exhibiting client art in a psychiatric hospital | Jasmine Blake | Paper | Intermediate to Advanced | 10/17 | 2 pm |
| Track | Course Code | Title | Presenters | Type | Content Level | Date | Time |
| School Setting | SS58 | When Time Is Limited: An Experiential School-Based Art Therapy Workshop | Shira Meshulam Heskia, Rotem Abraham, Dafna Regev | Workshop (Intermediate to Advanced) | 10/15 | 10:50 am | |
| School Setting | SS210 | Roses in December: Navigating Bereavement with Adolescents in the School Setting | Amanda Smith | Workshop (Beginner) | 10/16 | 10:50 am | |
| School Setting | SS101 | Group Art Therapy with/in Schools: Exploring Ethical Complexities | Elizabeth Graham Anderson, Madeline Centracchio | Paper | 10/16 | 2 pm | |
| School Setting | SS24 | The Third Language Workshop: Integrating Arts Therapists Into Multidisciplinary School Teams | Liat Cohen-Yatziv, Dafna Regev | Workshop (Intermediate to Advanced) | 10/17 | 4 pm | |
| School Setting | SS149 | A Single Case Study: Navigating Athlete Identity Beyond The Finish Line | Anella Willis | Paper | 10/17 | 4 pm |