July 10, 2020 On July 6, 2020, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that international students would no longer qualify for F-1 student visas and not be allowed to stay in the country if their college or university holds courses exclusively online...
July 2, 2020 July is known as Minority Mental Health Month and, more recently, people have been using the more inclusive term, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) Mental Health Month. As Mental Health America puts it, “The continued use of...
July 2, 2020 | Susan Boxer Kappel, MA, ATR-BC, LCAT, CGP, Conference Chair During these challenging times of Coronavirus, we understand the apprehension about making plans to attend a conference which may require air travel and a hotel stay—and is still four months...
July 2, 2020 The AATA is thrilled to announce that licensure of art therapists in the District of Columbia is now official law! The art therapy licensure legislation passed congressional review, the final step of the legislative process, and was assigned Law...
June 18, 2020 |Gioia Chilton, PhD, ATR-BC, LCPAT, CSAC, Nominating Sub-Committee Chair How can the American Art Therapy Association aid in addressing individual, collective, and generational trauma, at personal, communal and systemic levels? How does the association...
June 18, 2020 During the final meeting of the Art Therapy Advisory Committee on June 16th the first set of licensure applications (approx. 15-20) were approved! However, after a four-year journey of implementing the art therapy license enacted in 2016, the way forward...
