volume 19, number 1, 2024

This issue is now published in full. Future articles, practice papers, creative contributions, podcasts, reviews and more will be pre-published in the volume 19, number 2, 2024 issue every four weeks starting in September. Please sign up for our eNews to receive notifications as to when new content drops.

/editorials

Editorial – Becoming: A creative revolution in healing / Daniel Wong

Introducing our new co-editor: Henry Bowen / The JoCAT editors

Introducing our new co-editor: Ying Wang / The JoCAT editors

/explainers

Explainer – Working with trauma through the creative arts therapies / Ying Wang

Explainer – Mixed methods research and creative arts therapies / Caryn Griffin

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Publication date: 2024
ISSN: 2652-9459
Editors: A/Prof Sheridan Linnell, Dr Stacey Bush, Dr Catherine Camden Pratt, Dr Deborah Green, Caryn Griffin, Dr Ying Wang, Daniel Wong.
Publisher: JoCAT
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA-4.0

Previous issue – volume 18, number 2 – available here

Subsequent issue – volume 19, number 2 – available here

/articles

Embodied awareness: An inquiry into finding a felt-sense through a neurodivergent lens / RTM

An art-based research inquiry: The disruptive effect of a cancer diagnosis on one’s quality of life / Michaela Psaila-Savona

Cultural longing and loss: An arts-based inquiry into the experience of cultural identity for adult transracial adoptees (TRAs) / Anna Lam Sasson

An entanglement: How my professional identity as an educator and researcher embodies the creative arts therapist / Elvira Kalenjuk

Cultivating therapeutic presence: An exploratory case study using dadirri-inspired art therapy / Conny Rodgers and Katherine Winlaw

How do arts-based communities conceptualise their contribution to social justice for people living with intellectual disabilities? A scoping review / Anja Zimmermann et al.

/creative contributions

Mending the therapist’s heart with words and stitches / Li June Han

Outside the lines: Two poems / Patricia Hoi Ling Ki

Befriending spiders / Kate Parker

A clean touch / Spencer Reid

/podcasts

RTM in Felt conversation with Deborah Green /

Navigating between longing and loss as a transracial adoptee / Anna Lam Sasson in conversation with Ying Wang

“All I need to know, that you know, that within my body there is me”/ Michaela Psaila-Savona in conversation with Amanda Levey

Hopscotch and glitter: CAT sessions at Māngere Refugee Resettlement Centre / Amanda Levey talks with Catherine Hugo, Eliana Vanegas and Amelia Yiakmis

Whānau leading the way – Creative therapies in community collaboration / Jan McConnell and Katie Pureti in kōrero with Amanda Levey

/reviews

Response to the JoCAT review of ‘The proven efficacy of creative arts therapies: What the literature tells us’ / Deanne K Gray and Kate Dempsey

What the literature about the literature tells us: ANZACATA’s research report on efficacy of the creative arts therapies – Book review / Reviewed by Sheridan Linnell

Book review – The art and art therapy of papermaking: Material, methods and applications, edited by Drew Matott and Gretchen Miller / Reviewed by Keisha Rheinberger

Exhibition review – Creative Sanctuary / Reviewed by Beatrice Wharldall