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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/celebrating 20 years

Revisiting papers from past ANZJAT and JoCAT issues

We hope you have enjoyed revisiting, or discovering, some of the things published over the last 20 years.

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JoCAT takes a short break in August – we will be back in September publishing content in the next issue – volume 20, number 2

/bursary

Thinking of writing an article for JoCAT but feel you need some help? You might be eligible for support through our bursary programme

/our new review editor

Welcoming our new JoCAT Review Editor – Georgia Polichroniadis

/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.

Threading connections through community arts / Rupa Parthasarathy in conversation with Ying Wang

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October 2024

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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/practice papers

Integrating art therapy to enhance a tsunami preparedness project in Lebak Selatan, Indonesia / Ardhana Riswarie

April 2025

/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.

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Cover artwork of the third JoCAT

Cover artwork of the last ANZJAT

/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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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.

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