Sessions at AATA2026: Research/Evaluation (RE) Track - American Art Therapy Association

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.

Research/Evaluation (RE)

Sessions that present theory and practice of clinical evaluation, the use of standardized assessments, systematic case studies, outcome studies, and all forms of inquiry, using or exploring various research methodologies.

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.

Please note the program is still in formation.

Track	Course Code	Title	Presenters	Type	Date	Time
Research/Evaluation	RE161	Exploring the El Duende Art Therapy Intervention for Adults with Complex PTSD	Erica Ochsenreither	Paper	10/15	11 am
Research/Evaluation	RE28	Art Therapy with an African American Female Combat Veteran	Gioia Chilton	Paper	10/15	12 pm
Research/Evaluation	RE104	Collaging Art Therapists’ Identities: (Re)Searching Beyond Method	Elizabeth Graham Anderson	Performance	10/15	2 pm
Research/Evaluation	RE63	Reporting Quality of Art Therapy Research: A Systematic Review from 2000-2025	Malissa Morrell, Janet Kempf	Paper	10/15	3 pm
Research/Evaluation	RE200	Research can be Simple: Idiom Acquisition with Autistic Adults	Day Butcher	Paper	10/16	11 am
Research/Evaluation	RE109	Creative Arts Therapies Reduce Anxiety in Hospitalized Adolescents with Eating Disorders	Sadie Carpenter, Caitlin Taylor	Paper	10/16	12 pm
Research/Evaluation	RE72	Conceptualizing PID in Art Therapy Supervision with Post-graduate Art Therapists	Christine Atkinson	Paper	10/16	2 pm
Research/Evaluation	RE13	Why the arts matter: The gallery as a community hub	Erin Partridge	Paper	10/16	2 pm
Research/Evaluation	RE95	Pulp To Paper: An Ethnography Of Papermaking For Adults Bereaved By Suicide	Keisha-Lee Wren	Paper	10/16	3 pm

Research/Evaluation	RE26	An Educational Participatory Action Research Into Multidisciplinary School Collaboration With Arts Therapists	Liat Cohen-Yatziv	Poster	10/16	4 pm
Research/Evaluation	RE102	Art as Inside-Out Expression: The Ethics of Using Art in Therapy	Jayashree George, Deborah Sharpe	Paper	10/17	12 pm
Research/Evaluation	RE141	Examining doodling’s impact on emotion and cognition: A neuroimaging (fNIRS) study	Kristyn Stickley, Kim Valldejuli, Girija Kaimal	Paper	10/17	2 pm
Research/Evaluation	RE207	Intersections Between Alaska Native and Military Cultural Identities: Arts-Based Narrative Inquiry	Leslie Robertson	Paper	10/17	2 pm
Research/Evaluation	RE144	Trends in Art Therapy Doctoral Dissertation Research	Nancy Gerber, Christine Phang, Lisa Hinz, Danielle Chen	Paper	10/17	2:15 pm
Research/Evaluation	RE201	Art Therapy for Authenticity and Meaning: Processing the Existential Concerns	Jessica Symes	Paper	10/17	3 pm