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Buckeye Art Therapy Symposium 2021

  • 10 Sep 2021
  • 8:00 AM
  • 11 Sep 2021
  • 5:00 PM
  • Virtual

Registration

(depends on selected options)

Base fee:
  • AATA Affiliate Chapter Members who are NOT BATA members, eligible for discount. Friday ONLY attendance
  • AATA Affiliate Chapter Members who are NOT BATA members, eligible for discount. FULL SYMPOSIUM
  • AATA Affiliate Chapter Members who are NOT BATA members, eligible for discount. Saturday ONLY attendance
  • You must pay the FULL Friday ONLY price even if you are just attending the Keynote Address.
  • Any member category but STUDENT.
    • BATA will honor our member rate to colleagues that document they are a member of another AATA chapter.
  • those who wish to attend Saturday only
  • BATA Admin ONLY
    Scholarship funds, those who receive full free symposium.
    CODE REQUIRED
  • Approved volunteers for event
  • Non AATA Chapter members Attendance
  • Half off registration
  • Any Art Therapy Student Friday Only Registration
  • *A copy of your student ID is required if you are registering as a student. Any Art Therapy Student
  • Saturday attendance only for any Art Therapy Student
  • All students who present. Half price off full Symposium Rate

Registration is closed

 

BATA 40th Annual Virtual Symposium

 

 

  

Mercedes Ballbé ter Maat | College of Psychology | NSU 

 

Keynote Speaker

Mercedes Ballbe ter Maat, Ph.D., ATR-BC, LPC  


Keynote title:  


Art Therapy Across Borders and Cultures:

A Humanitarian Approach to Healing

Have you ever been interested in spending time overseas providing art therapy services to children and families in need? This presentation shares the experiences of the presenter as she embarked in two volunteer, humanitarian missions. The first one in Lebanon, as a team of art therapists worked with Syrian refugee children and their mothers to assist in improving the quality of their lives. Themes of loss, imprisonment, death, violence, hope, resiliency, cultural and religious norms, strength, and courage emerged. The second one in Peru, where the presenter implemented arts therapeutic activities based on Carey McCarthy’s culturally adapted, school-based program implemented with low-income, impoverished, indigenous children in North America, and Linda Chapman’s Neurodevelopmental Art Therapy (NDAT) trauma treatment model. By participating in this presentation, attendees will be able to recognize protective factors crucial for working with children and families affected by traumatic events, identify cultural considerations when working outside of the United States, and learn about art therapy tasks and directives found effective when working with these populations. Specific art therapy interventions and artwork will be discussed to illustrate how children, mothers, and families narrated their stories through nonverbal creative approaches. Attendees will also engage in a brief art experiential and discussion. 

About Dr. Mercedes ter Maat:


Dr. Mercedes ter Maat, Ph.D., LPC, ATR-BC is a professor in the Department of Counseling at Nova Southeastern University’s College of Psychology in Ft. Lauderdale. Prior to joining NSU she was the director of the school counseling graduate program at the George Washington University, Alexandria, VA campus and an assistant professor at Virginia Tech. She has over 33 years of combined working experience as a counselor educator, mental health counselor, school counselor, and art therapist. Dr. ter Maat participates in local, state, national, and international leadership undertakings in the fields of mental health counseling, school counseling, and art therapy, and has presented and published articles and book chapters on topics related to multicultural counseling, ethics, motivational interviewing, and the use of art in counseling and therapy. She actively participates in humanitarian work, most recently in Peru, Argentina, Swaziland, and Lebanon, and her research interests are in enhancing the quality of life of immigrant, minority families, and refugees in crisis by identifying risk and promoting protective factors through school- and community-based interventions. She is a past-president of the American Art Therapy Association, the European Branch of the American Counseling Association, and the Croatian Art Therapy Association. Dr. ter Maat is a licensed professional counselor and a board-certified/registered art therapist.

 

 

  
 


 

 

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