Content consists entirely of unique sessions not offered at the AATA2024 in-person conference in Pittsburgh, PA. => Earn 18.5 Continuing Education Credits

AATA2024: Virtual Conference Session (Day 2)

Three panelists will describe their contributions to the second edition of the Formal Elements Art Therapy Scale (FEATS) including the literature review, the revised scales, additional chapters, and the children’s section.

This presentation will provide attendees with information about major types of neural processing necessary for making unconscious material available to conscious awareness. The Expressive Therapies Continuum will be explored as a framework for developing treatment that is consistent with these processes for the purpose of reconciling cognitive/ affective/behavioral issues.

Career exploration and decision-making play substantial roles in adolescents and adults’ life design efforts. An excellent tool for exploring their career influences, interests, and goals is the career focused genogram. Creative methods for implementing career genogram variations will be presented and explored. Narrative approaches to career-life design will be emphasized.

The use of sidewalk chalk as a medium holds great therapeutic value to the developing child's creativity and ability to play. The therapeutic, kinesthetic, social/interpersonal, and psychological areas within childhood development can be addressed with the inclusion of sidewalk chalk as a catalyst for creativity. This course explores sidewalk chalk within the aspect of play, provides adaptive techniques and discusses intervention techniques within the school setting.

An altered book provides both pictorial and sculptural expression and has the sequential character of a narrative for story-telling. The author sharesher own personal altered book of her cancer journey and read excerpts from her written journal to compare visual and verbal creative expression of emotionally-laden material.

This course discusses a combining of Rhyne's Gestalt art therapy approach with Hellinger's family constellations, to enhance cognitive and emotional awareness of addictive patterns' origins. Transpersonal aspects of Hellinger's theory of the "Orders of Love" are made visible and concrete in clay for verbal processing and abreaction.

Problems related to pornography are increasingly commonplace in contemporary clinical practice. It has never been more important for therapists who work symbolically and artistically to take seriously the clinical issues related to pornography. This course uses rich case material to “particularize”rather than generalize about pornography and porn use.

The use of comics and graphic novels in art therapy can tell difficult stories with or without words. They are experienced by readers and creators at multiple reading levels, and engage high levels of meaning making through the countless integrations of text to imagery.