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JoCAT’s /explore facility allows you to explore published JoCAT and ANZJAT articles, creative works, reviews, interviews and podcasts, and videos by theme. Themes are added as they emerge from our current and back issues so please check back into the JoCAT website or follow us on our social.

/Arts-based research and creative arts therapy

/explainer

Explainer – Arts-based research: A tentative and general introduction / Deborah Green

October 2023

/articles

The mattering and agency of (clinical): A collection of assemblage poems / Naomi Pears-Scown

September 2024

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

July 2024

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

June 2024

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

June 2024

Disenfranchised grief: An art-based research inquiry / Susannah Morrison

October 2023

Spadix, stems and scar-wounds: Finding inter/intra-sentient language through dialogue with material-other(s) / Michele Fairbairn

September 2023

A walk of im/possible snails: A tender tracing of a mother/child ‘us’ / Ariel Moy

August 2023

Intra-active identity stories: How a storm, pine-needle basket, waterfall, and satellite entangle and trouble a creative arts therapist’s ecological and professional identity / Naomi Pears-Scown

July 2023

Working with layers: A heuristic study utilising single-canvas art-making to illuminate personal responses of the therapist / Amanda Brown and Maggie Wilson

June 2023

Using art therapy to explore researcher identity as a prelude to dysgraphia study: An autoethnography / Elvira Kalenjuk, Pearl Subban, Stella Laletas and Sue Wilson

December 2022

Imprinted memories: An arts-based inquiry / Melinda Jane

November 2022

The significance of engaging with materials and modes: A language of inner workings / Iliana Contos

August 2022

Once upon a glowing rabbit story that leads home… / Deborah Green et al.

August 2022

How do arts practices support people with chronic physical pain? Exploring lived experiences of chronic pain with people using expressive arts / Kelsey L. Cross

August 2022

Uninvited guests, soul-filled skies and universes beneath my toes: Exploring poiesis
at the confluence of the arts and self for arts therapy research / Hilary Tapper

December 2021

Working with death through art and story: A collective biography / Jody Thomson

March 2020

Emergence, resonant felt sensing and the arts: With/in relational spaces of us / Stacey Bush

November 2018

The arts of making sens/e / Deborah Green et al

November 2018

quake destruction/arts creation: arts therapy and the canterbury earthquakes / Deborah Green

December 2017

Step into my (virtual) world: An exploration of virtual reality drawing applications for arts therapy / Kathrin Marks, Stefan Marks and Amanda Brown

December 2017

Touching the earth: Creating steps towards re-establishing a connection with nature / Martin Roberts

December 2017

Beneath the surface: The lived experience of the art therapist / Jody Thomson

November 2016

Exploring and sharing arts therapy experiences through fiction-based research / Deborah Green

September 2015

Reflections from the classroom: Research in art therapy – A photo essay / Theresa Van Lith

September 2015

A heuristic and art-based inquiry: The experience of combining mindfulness
practice and art-making / Pui Yin (Imi) Lo

November 2011

/practice papers

Stretching material possibilities within the creative arts therapies: Exploring margarine, charcoal and sound, and their affective entanglements within co-responsive ecosystems / Virginia Frankovich

/podcasts

RTM in Felt conversation with Deborah Green /

July 2024

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

June 2024

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

June 2024

Material musings / Virginia Frankovich in conversation with Amanda Levey

September 2023

A tender tracing of a mother/child ‘us’ / Ariel Moy in conversation with Stacey Bush

August 2023

Intra-active identity stories / Naomi Pears-Scown in conversation with Amanda Levey

July 2023

We are looking to add more publications in this area of research. If you are undertaking creative arts therapies research using san arts-based approach and would like to contribute to JoCAT please get in touch.

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