/explore

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.

/Trauma and the creative arts therapies

/explainer

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

July 2024

/articles

Towards creating a description of art therapy for adults with trauma in Australia: A client-centred intervention / Henry Bowen-Salter et al.

July 2021

Art and dramatherapists together consider a multimodal approach for supporting clients with complex trauma / Joanna Jaaniste and Suzanne Perry

July 2021

Working creatively with the traumatised organisational mind / Rose Williams

December 2020

Theory to practice: A critical exploration of the therapeutic relationship in art therapy with a traumatised child / Kit Ping Wong

December 2021

A multi-modal approach to overcoming childhood trauma, using cognitive behavioural therapy and art therapy / Vera Keatley

November 2018

Kites and shaking hearts in the rubble / Deborah Green and Bettina Evans

November 2018

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

December 2017

Sandtray work with adult trauma clients: Creating safety, facilitating communication and fostering healing / Garjana Claudia Kosanke, Brigitte Puls and Jackie Feather

September 2015

Clearing a space / Deborah Green

December 2012

Evaluating a creative arts program designed for children who have been sexually abused / Sally V Hunter and Susan Rosevear

November 2011

Life after sex trafficking in Nepal: An art therapy and reproductive health therapeutic program with women who have experienced sex trafficking, exploitation and abuse / Atira L. Tan

November 2018

/practice papers

Drumming, rhythm and regulation through a polyvagal lens / Simon Faulkner

April 2023

/creatives

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

June 2024

Potential / Judy Hammond

December 2020

A place to play / Karen Hvidding

September 2015

/reviews

Review – Dragon Slippers: Why Rosalind Penfold’s graphic novel is still so relevant to creative arts therapies / Kiki Havos

September 2024

Book review – Creative therapies for complex trauma: Helping children and families in foster care, kinship care or adoption, edited by Anthea Hendry and Joy Hasler / Reviewed by Kate Richards

November 2018

Book review – Trauma healing at the Clay Field: A sensorimotor art therapy approach, by Cornelia Elbrecht / Reviewed by Maggie Wilson

October 2013

Book review – What happened to you? Conversations on trauma, resilience, and healing, by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey / Reviewed by Nikki O’Connor

December 2021

We are looking to add more publications in this area of research. If you are undertaking creative arts therapies research in dance movement therapy and would like to contribute to JoCAT please get in touch.

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