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.
NEW /reflections and essays
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.
an accessible way to listen to some of the exciting things happening in the creative arts therapies research space.
/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
/explore
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.
/featured – making a submission
Thinking of making a submission to JoCAT? Here are resources to help authors and reviewers with the submission process.
While we set a deadline – 5 February 2025 for the first issue next year, volume 20, number 1, submissions to be considered can be made at any time.
/articles
/practice papers
one from the archives
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.
/creatives
Continuing the /Explore theme of Poetic Enquiry and CAT, we are featuring three creatives from past issues:
To work multimodally / Karen Szydlik
December 2023
Contained / Natalie Q.Y. Kang
July 2021
/reviews
Review – Dragon Slippers: Why Rosalind Penfold’s graphic novel is still so relevant to creative arts therapies / Kiki Havos
September 2024
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!
/videos
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.