Register by tomorrow, June 28, to lock in the best rates for the AATA2024 in-person conference! Our vision for the conference is to help the art therapy community connect with each other through world-class continuing education programming, art-making experientials, networking events, and more.

Join us for our Annual Virtual Conference with all-new, never-been-seen sessions! It will feature the same aspect of AATA’s in-person conference that the art therapy community loves — in a 100% virtual format. Simply put, this won’t be your usual virtual event with a string of Zoom webinars! We will be hosting the conference on a new platform designed specifically for us. 

⇒ In-person conference attendees will receive a 50% discounted rate for the virtual conference. Register during Early Bird to receive the best rates!

Pride Month is a time for the LGBTQ+ community and allies to celebrate and embrace identity. For art therapists and the mental health community, it's an opportunity to reiterate our support for safe and inclusive environments for all people to thrive. As anti-LGBTQ+, and in particular anti-trans, legislation continues to be introduced and hate-based crimes and discrimination continue across the country, mental health and well-being is more important than ever. Please share these resources for Pride Month (and year round) to support the LGBTQ+ community.

♦ Nick Denson, MA, LCPC, CLCADC-I, ATR-BC, NCC
♦ Magdalena Karlick, Ph.D-c, ATR-BC, LPCC
♦ Jess Minckley, MFA, MA, LMHC, ACMHC, NCC, ATR, PhDc
♦ Be Staub, MA, AMFT

At its May meeting, ACATE approved four substantive policy changes to improve the accreditation process and provide more transparency of timelines and thresholds. These updates and additions to ACATE Policies and Procedures can be seen in detail on the ACATE/CAAHEP website on the page numbers indicated.

“Community overlaps and relationship intersections are not just found in the (multi-dimensional) queer communities of small towns / cities. I have had many roles in the small city that I live and work in: I went to and taught at for a decade the only graduate school for Art Therapy and Counseling in the city; I was the art director of a local organization that brings Palestinian and Israeli youth to the city; I have been a school counselor at a small private school (Pre-k – 8th grade); I worked at an organization that provided housing and health services for displaced and unhoused youth, as well as offered counseling services for families involved in family court; and I am the mama of children in the schools in the city. These public roles have encouraged the practice of being myself all the time, as well as the practice of humility when it’s my responsibility to repair an overstep.”

⇒ Exploratory fNIRS Assessment of Differences in Activation in Virtual Reality Visual Self-Expression Including With a Fragrance Stimulus
⇒ Art Therapy and Arts in Health: Identifying Shared Values but Different Goals Using a Framework Analysis
⇒ Art Therapy for Adolescents with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms: A Pilot Study
⇒ Reduction of Cortisol Levels and Participants' Responses Following Art Making
⇒ Therapeutic Doll Making in Art Psychotherapy for Complex Trauma

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