Conversations with Legacy Members: AATA Then, Now, and in the Future (NY-PP6289)
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Deborah Good, PhD, ATR-BC, ATCS, LPAT, LPCC
Deborah A. Good, PhD, ATR-BC, ATCS, LPAT, LPCC, is a past-president of the American Art Therapy Association and past-president of the Art Therapy Credentials Board. She wrote and advocated for the first Art Therapy licensure bill from 1989 to 1993, which the New Mexico Legislature passed as part of the Therapy and Counseling Practice Act. New Mexico Art Therapists were licensed for the first time in 1994 as Licensed Professional Art Therapists (LPAT). Deborah continues to advocate for LPATs to gain insurance reimbursement inclusion. Dr. Good worked 45 years as an Art Therapist and Clinical Counselor. She started the Art Therapy Program at Southwestern College in Santa Fe, New Mexico and was the Director of that program for 10 years. Currently, she maintains an active clinical supervision practice.
Judy Rubin, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM
Judy Rubin, past President and Honorary Life Member of AATA, is the author of six books on art therapy, editor/director of thirteen films, and President of Expressive Media (www.expressivemedia.org). A licensed psychologist, she is on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center.
Charles Anderson
Charles Anderson, ATR-BC, as a pioneer of the art therapy field, witnessed the profession take root and grow. Retired at 77, he still works part-time at Stormont Vail West Hospital, serving clients in crisis and supervising students in the Emporia State University art therapy program. Anderson held many leadership positions in the AATA. He was the founding Chair of AATA’s Mosaic Committee (1990-94), was selected as a committee member on the first AATA Ethics Review Board and served two terms on the committee to review questions for the ATCB Certification Exam. The AATA awarded Anderson the Distinguished Clinician Award (2000) and the Multicultural Leadership Award (2008) in recognition of his contributions.
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.
Laurie Wilson, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM
Laurie Wilson, Ph.D. LPC, ATR-BC HLM is Professor Emerita and Former Director of NYU's Graduate Art Therapy Program. She is currently Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at The Institute for Psychoanalytic Education Affiliated with NYU School of Medicine. She practices in New York City and has published widely in three fields (art therapy, art history and psychoanalysis) including Alberto Giacometti: Myth, Magic and the Man (Yale, 2003) and Louise Nevelson :Light and Shadow (Thames & Hudson, 2016)
Bobbi Stoll, ATR-BC, HLM
Six years in retirement have been filled with exciting travel, painting, exploring new creative outlets, visiting friends around the world, settling in a new home, meeting great neighbors, bonding with my apricot poodle and loving the absence of time-consuming home-owner responsibilities. Retirement suits me very well and life is good.
This session features some of the art therapy trailblazers who have made significant contributions to our profession and the Association. Presenters include Past Presidents and Honorary Life Members who will participate in a moderated panel discussion in which they will dialogue about the future of the profession and the AATA, emphasizing what the Association has accomplished, its hopes for the future, and how current members can contribute to this vision!