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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Celebrating 20 years of publishing
Revisiting articles from the first issue of ANZJAT, in 2006; the ten year anniversary issue in 2015; and the first issue of JoCAT, in 2020.
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We are looking for a volunteer to fill the position of JoCAT Podcast Coordinator.
Thinking of making a submission to JoCAT? Send it to us by 4 July 2025 to be considered for this year’s second issue, volume 20, number 2.
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Crossing bridges / Owen Bullock in conversation with Deborah Green
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December 2024
The first two JoCAT podcasts
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.
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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One from the archives
More practice papers dropping from April 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. Here is the new one, and two more from the archives.
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Declaration of love / Jaya Narayan
December 2024
Published in the ten year anniversary issue of ANZJAT
Published in the first issue of JoCAT
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Reviewed in the third issue of JoCAT
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.
A video published in JoCAT in 2021
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.
Thinking of making a submission to JoCAT? Here are resources to help authors and reviewers with the submission process.
While we set a deadline – 4 July 2025 for the second issue next year, volume 20, number 2 – submissions to be considered can be made at any time.
