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)

AATA2024: Virtual Conference Session (Day 2)

AATA2024: Virtual Conference Session (Day 1)

Join Megan VanMeter, ATR-BC, LPC, LMHC, LPC-AT/S for a session that breaks down the characteristics of workplace bullying, treatment considerations, and resources for targets, bullies, and therapists.

In this 55 minute play you enter Newtown, CT at the end of 2012 immediately following the Sandy Hook Massacre. Through creative music, art, and dance the Artist demonstrates intimate vignettes from her clinical experiences with survivors. Evoking emotional insight on the depths of complex trauma, and the therapeutic relationship.

"Art therapists discuss their exposure to disaster response and review how they shared coping strategies, including creative means of self-care during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pitfalls, challenges of disaster work, and self-care tips are reviewed, assisting art therapists working in or contemplating disaster relief work."

This presentation will provide an overview of moral injury and how it impacts veterans and military service members. Two art therapists who work with this population will discuss their experiences working with clients who have experienced moral injury. Several case examples will be reviewed.

The protocols have demonstrated significant decreases in the impact of trauma, in negative affect and in pain rating and increases in endorsed resiliency resources which were maintained at follow-up, in person, online and during the pandemic. Empirical and case studies art will illustrate the 10 years of research.

How can people with severe attachment wounds and a long trauma history connect with others during a global pandemic? Is it possible to heal trauma with body-based interventions over video? A community mental health therapist presents one promising approach for use by professional therapists.​