N/NY-TA6205 - Revising the FEATS Manual to Make a More Reliable Instrument

Description

Presenters will reveal revisions to the Formal Elements Art Therapy Scale Manual (FEATS) called for through evidence-based research over the past 20 years. Researchers will learn how to strengthen interrater reliability when using the instrument. The paper will outline best-practices for future research design and clinical use of the FEATS

Learning Objectives

Attendees will be able to state at least three changes that are being made in the upcoming revision of The FEATS Rating Manual and be able to discuss why those changes are important to the use of the FEATS in the future.
Attendees will be able to name at least three ways to strengthen interrater reliability when using the FEATS.
Attendees will be able to list at least three effective ways to implement the revised FEATS Rating Manual in both clinical and research applications.

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.