volume 19, number 1, 2024

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Explainer – Mixed methods research and creative arts therapies / Caryn Griffin

Introducing our new co-editor: Ying Wang / The JoCAT editors

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Publication date: 2024
ISSN: 2652-9459
Editors: A/Prof Sheridan Linnell, Dr Stacey Bush, Dr Catherine Camden Pratt, Dr Deborah Green, Caryn Griffen, Dr Ying Wang, Daniel Wong.
Publisher: JoCAT

Previous issue – volume 18, number 2 – available here

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

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

An entanglement: How my professional identity as an educator and researcher embodies the creative arts therapist / Elvira Kalenjuk

Cultivating therapeutic presence: An exploratory case study using dadirri-inspired art therapy / Conny Rodgers and Katherine Winlaw

How do arts-based communities conceptualise their contribution to social justice for people living with intellectual disabilities? A scoping review / Anja Zimmermann et al.

/practice papers

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/creative contributions

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

Outside the lines: Two poems / Patricia Hoi Ling Ki

Befriending spiders / Kate Parker

A clean touch / Spencer Reid

/podcasts

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

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

Hopscotch and glitter: CAT sessions at Māngere Refugee Resettlement Centre / Amanda Levey talks with Catherine Hugo, Eliana Vanegas and Amelia Yiakmis

Whānau leading the way – Creative therapies in community collaboration / Jan McConnell and Katie Pureti in kōrero with Amanda Levey

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Response to the JoCAT review of ‘The proven efficacy of creative arts therapies: What the literature tells us’ / Deanne K Gray and Kate Dempsey

What the literature about the literature tells us: ANZACATA’s research report on efficacy of the creative arts therapies – Book review / Reviewed by Sheridan Linnell

Book review – The art and art therapy of papermaking: Material, methods and applications, edited by Drew Matott and Gretchen Miller / Reviewed by Keisha Rheinberger

Exhibition review – Creative Sanctuary / Reviewed by Beatrice Wharldall