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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/featured – making a submission
We recently presented a webinar about JoCAT and how to get published. We are highlighting this here along with other resources to help authors and reviewers with the submission process. Submissions to be considered for the first issue next year, volume 20, number 1, can be submitted at any time.
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an accessible way to listen to some of the exciting things happening in the creative arts therapies research space.
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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.
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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More practice papers dropping soon
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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JoCAT is looking for more creative contributions. If you have a work, along with a creative arts therapist statement, that your would like to share, please consider making a creative submission.
We have published creative works by CATs for 15 years – the first one was in September 2010 in ANZJAT volume 5, number 1. We are featuring the first three creative contributions published here for you to enjoy.
Poetry and images / Toril Pursell
September 2010
Nicola sings a response / Carla van Laar
October 2013
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Review – Dragon Slippers: Why Rosalind Penfold’s graphic novel is still so relevant to creative arts therapies / Kiki Havos
September 2024
More reviews dropping soon
JoCAT is always looking for new reviews. 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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This video is accessible to ANZACATA members only in the member portal of the ANZACATA website (login required).
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.