N/NY-RE-237 - Introducing the Children's Section to the FEATS Rating Manual

The Formal Elements Art Therapy Scale Rating Manual (FEATS) has been revised to include a children’s section. This paper presentation will outline the new section. Presenters will review how the FEATS can be used in clinical and research settings to study children’s drawings and will suggest opportunities for research collaborations.

Amy Bucciarelli

Amy Bucciarelli, MS, ATR-BC, LMHC, is a faculty member for the University of Florida's Center for Arts in Medicine. Amy's clinical experience focuses on medical art therapy. She has published and presented about assessments, mandalas, practitioner self-care, the therapeutic use of hand papermaking, and the collaboration of creative arts therapies and arts in medicine programs.

Dr. Linda Gantt

PhD, ATR-BC, HLM

Linda Gantt, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM, is the co-owner of the ITR Training Institute, Morgantown, WV. She has presented nationally and internationally on art therapy in trauma treatment and the Instinctual Trauma Response as well as on the Formal Elements Art Therapy Scale (FEATS) that she and Carmello Tabone developed.

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