The conference is organized into seven 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.
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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).
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- Addictions/Substance
- Child/Adolescents
- Forensics
- Geriatrics
- Psychiatric Settings
- Medical Settings
- School Settings
| Track | Course Code | Title | Presenters | Type | Date | Time |
| Addictions/Substance | AS174 | Clay Use As Mindfulness For Women In Early Substance Use Recovery | Cheryl Feldman | Paper | 10/27 | 12:00 PM – 12:50 PM |
| Track | Course Code | Title | Presenters | Type | Date | Time |
| Child/Adolescents | CA140 | Centering Youth Voices: Art as Narrative | Teresa Grame | Paper | 10/27 | 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM |
| Child/Adolescents | CA151 | What happens when we unravel? Reweaving the golden thread with therapeutic narrative | Valeria Koutmina, Marie De Bethune | Half Day Advanced Practice Course | 10/29 | 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM |
| Child/Adolescents | CA161 | Pediatric Medical Art Therapy Collaborations | Jenson Berkley Maydew, Jennifer G Sullivan | Paper | 10/27 | 3:00 PM – 3:50 PM |
| Child/Adolescents | CA191 | Lessons from Mister Rogers – The Back Story | Judith Rubin | Video | 10/28 | 4:00 PM – 4:50 PM |
| Child/Adolescents | CA229 | Pillows Talk: A Humanitarian Relief Intervention | Michele Ferro, Julia Byers | Paper | 10/27 | 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM |
| Track | Course Code | Title | Presenters | Type | Date | Time |
| Forensics | FS11 | Art Therapy with Prison Subpopulations: Isolation, Gang Affiliation, Adolescence, Pregnancy, Life Sentences | Evie Soape, Casey Barlow, Marissa Hart, Michelle Torrech Pérez | Panel | 10/26 | 10:50 AM – 12:20 PM |
| Forensics | FS163 | Forensic Art Therapy: The Art of Investigating, Interviewing and Testifying | Marcia Cohen-Liebman | Paper | 10/27 | 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM |
| Track | Course Code | Title | Presenters | Type | Date | Time |
| Geriatrics | GE198 | Art Therapy for Adults with Mild/Major Neurocognitive Disorders: Cognitive Functions & Quality-of-Life | Mary Roberts, Isabel Kohuth | Paper | 10/27 | 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM |
| Geriatrics | GE76 | Dementia: A Preliminary Investigation into a Neuroscience-informed Art Therapy Practice in Singapore | Tse Xuan Lau, Ronald Lay | Paper | 10/26 | 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM |
| Track | Course Code | Title | Presenters | Type | Date | Time |
| Psychiatric Settings | PS72 | Expressive Therapies Continuum: Finding A Creative Voice with Dynamic and Individualized Processes | Shelley Cannon Frederick, Jessica Higa | All Day Advanced Practice Course | 10/25 | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM |
| Track | Course Code | Title | Presenters | Type | Date | Time |
| Medical Settings | MS178 | “Out of Practice:” Overcoming Isolation and Cultivating Connections in a Pediatric Hospital | Katie O’Connor | Workshop | 10/26 | 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM |
| Medical Settings | MS225 | A Visual Conversation With Trauma: Visual Journaling To Combat Vicarious Trauma | Diana Gibson | Workshop | 10/27 | 10:50 AM – 12:20 PM |
| Medical Settings | MS52 | Arts In Medicine: An Emporia State University, KCAIC, KU Medical Center Collaboration | Gaelynn Patricia Wolf Bordonaro, Kate Van Steenhuyse, Haoyu Huang, Julie Galliart, Ash Verburg | Panel | 10/26 | 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM |
| Track | Course Code | Title | Presenters | Type | Date | Time |
| School Setting | SS12 | Preschool Art Therapy: Research into the Connection with Emergent Literacy | Kathryn Snyder | Paper | 10/28 | 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM |
| School Setting | SS188 | School-Based Art Therapy Models: Recommendations from the Field | Marygrace Berberian, Alicia Ballestas, Melissa Walter, Rochele Royster | Panel | 10/26 | 10:50 AM – 12:20 PM |
| School Setting | SS80 | Implementation and Acceptability of a School-Based Art Therapy Initiative | Katie Hinson Sullivan, Laura Allen | Paper | 10/26 | 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM |