College of the Arts
Creative Arts Therapy Research (Veterans Telehealth Art Therapy)
Led by Heather Spooner · Center for Arts in Medicine
What we study
Heather Spooner helped found the Rural Veterans Telerehabilitation Initiative Creative Arts Therapy project with the VA. Her current art therapy research studies how art therapy affects the body and brain in Veterans with PTSD, and builds a manual for telehealth art therapy.
What working here is like
- Clinical
- Human participants
- Projects
- 2
- Papers
- 3
Current projects
Rural Veterans Telerehabilitation Initiative: Creative Arts Therapy
A UF and VA project bringing creative arts therapy to rural Veterans by telehealth.
Art therapy for PTSD
How art therapy affects the body and brain of Veterans with PTSD.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Creative Resilience: The Role of the Arts and Creative Arts Therapies in Disaster Preparedness, Response and Recovery
2026 · Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
Describes how the arts and creative arts therapies can support disaster preparedness, response and recovery.
- Telehealth delivered art therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder: A single-arm multi-modal feasibility pilot
2026 · The Arts in Psychotherapy
Pilots telehealth art therapy for Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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- The FRAME model for manualization: Developing a flexible and responsive telehealth art therapy approach for military PTSD
2026 · The Arts in Psychotherapy
Describes how a team built an eight-week telehealth art therapy program for military Veterans.
Plain-language summaries are AI-written and reviewed by us; check the paper for details.
How to reach out
Heather Spooner hasn't set up this page yet. Their UF Scholars profile lists their publications.