volume 20, number 2, 2025

Welcome to volume 20, number 2. We are proud to be in our 20th year of publishing our journal, and onto our eleventh issue as JoCAT.

This issue is now published in full. Future articles, practice papers, creative contributions, podcasts, reviews and more will be pre-published in the volume 21, number 1, 2026 issue every four weeks starting in March. Please sign up for our eNews to receive notifications as to when new content drops.

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Editorial: One candle / Sheridan Linnell

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Publication date: 2025
ISSN: 2652-9459
Editors: A/Prof Sheridan Linnell, Dr Henry Bowen, Dr Catherine Camden Pratt, Prof Deborah Green, Caryn Griffin, Dr Ying Wang, Daniel Wong.
Publisher: JoCAT
Licence: CC BY-NC-4.0

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A retrospective review – Through the wheiao: Creating a cultural arts therapy identity through an autoethnographic lens / Robyn Angell-Morice

Therapeutic Art Play: Art therapy practices in education to nurture autonomy, creativity, and connection / Georgia Freebody

Comics for re-storying self: Revisiting autoethnographic research from student placement / cat ko

Using digital art to explore my experience of sepsis: An arts-based autoethnographic inquiry / Susannah Morrison

/practice papers

Exploring supervision pedagogy through collaborative art-based reflection: Reworking a single expressive surface / Tess Crane, Kate Richards, Pam Hellema, Carmen Millic and Sally Goldstraw

Exploring stress through storytelling in short-form videos created by Thai undergraduate students in Bangkok: A pilot study / Ziyuan Lin and Nisara Jaroenkajornkij

/reflections and essays

Asking the way, tending the heart: A practice-based autoethnography integrating expressive writing, Daoist insight, and mythic inquiry / Junhaoran Li

Navigating the emotional terrain of palliative care: An art therapy trainee’s reflections / Samantha Neubronner

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The messy business of becoming good enough (with comics and magical girls) / cat ko in conversation with Zi Wei Yap

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Ka mua, ka muri: A retrospective kōrero through te wheiao ki te ao mārama / Robyn Angell-Morice in conversation with Heleina Waimoana Dalton

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CAT kōrero in collab: Considering culture, social and climate justice / Jamie Bird, Kim Valldejuli and Heleina Dalton in conversation with Ying Wang

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Tip-TAP-Toe-ing into playful awe / Georgia Freebody in conversation with Deborah Green

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Digital art-making to befriend a recovering body / Susannah Morrison talks with Amanda Levey

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