Welcome to the Journal of Creative Arts Therapies (JoCAT), the home of the creative arts therapies research community. JoCAT is the open access peer-reviewed publication of ANZACATA in association with the School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University.
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Welcoming our two new JoCAT Podcast Coordinators
Caz Steele from Aotearoa New Zealand, and Jooyoung (JY) Kim from Australia have recently joined the the team. We plan to bring you more podcasts throughout the year.
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Celebrating 20 years of publishing
Revisiting papers from past ANZJAT and JoCAT issues
Passage through grief / Suzanne Calomeris
October 2006
Imprinted: The use of simple printmaking techniques in arts therapy / Louise Morton
March 2020
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Thinking of making a submission to JoCAT? Here are resources to help authors and reviewers with the submission process.
Please make your submission by 4 July 2025 to be considered for the second issue next year, volume 20, number 2
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New podcasts drop regularly. If you have an idea for a podcast that you would like to work with JoCAT to produce, please get in contact. If you have any feedback about what you like in a podcast we’d like to hear from you.
Threading connections through community arts / Rupa Parthasarathy in conversation with Ying Wang
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October 2024
Explore JoCAT and ANZJAT articles, creative works, reviews, interviews and podcasts, and videos by theme
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Themes are added as they emerge from our current and back issues so please check back here or sign up to our eNews or follow us on our social to be notified when new explore themes drop.
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Integrating art therapy to enhance a tsunami preparedness project in Lebak Selatan, Indonesia / Ardhana Riswarie
April 2025
More practice papers dropping in 2025
JoCAT is always looking for new practice papers. If you have a shorter than full-length article that focuses on close-in, reflexively-creative documentation of developments, implementations and innovations from/by/through the grassroots lenses of CAT practitioners, we would love to hear from you.
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Alongside the full length papers that are the core of JoCAT’s contribution to CAT research, JoCAT publishes shorter papers including practice papers, case studies, essays and reflective pieces. Reflective papers and essays are now grouped together.
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Cover artwork of the 2018 ANZJAT
Cover artwork of the first ANZJAT
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If you have read a great book, or have been to a CAT-related art exhibition or performance, or listened to a podcast that you think other CATs would find interesting please let us know. You can write the review yourself, or we can find a reviewer. We’d love to hear from you!
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Accessible to ANZACATA members only through the ANZACATA website.
JoCAT is looking for more video contributions. If you work in the medium of video and would like to have one of your works considered for publication, please get in touch. Videos are published on the JoCAT website and on the JoCAT YouTube Channel.