volume 20, number 1, 2025

Welcome to volume 20, number 1. We are proud to be in our 20th year of publishing our journal, and onto our tenth 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 20, number 2, 2025 issue every four weeks starting in September. Please sign up for our eNews to receive notifications as to when new content drops.

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Editorial – Embracing multimodal, inclusive and socially engaged practices / Ying Wang

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

Previous issue – volume 19, number 2 – available here

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Stillness that moves: Fostering presence as an emerging creative arts therapist / Shanti Brown

The relationship between creative arts therapists and parents of student-clients within a special education school ‎setting / Meytal Fogel-Simhony and Gal Abramovski

A grounded theory exploration of sensory and kinaesthetic engagement with clay / Theresa Van Lith and Caitlin Beale

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Building a stronger sense of self and others: Creative Connections in an early intervention setting / Natalie Kang Qian Yi and Chong Kai Wen

Creating space for meaning: Exploring emotional integration through psychodynamic art therapy in forensic mental health / Abigail Reisner, Theresa Van Lith, Danielle Ashley and Lorrae Mynard

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

/reflections and essays

Seasons of self: A timely reflection / Anita Lever

From there and then, to here and now: Reflections on art-making and identities through an art therapy graduate exhibition / Chee Xingyu Michelle, Koh Zong Qi, Natalie Tee Yen Sean, and Svetlana (Lana) Fedotova

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Cross-pollinating embodied arts, collective well-being, and activism / Caz Steele talks to MANIFESTA director Janaína Moraes

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Best practice for the use of clay in therapy – a thoughtful and practical guide / Ying Wang talks to Theresa Van Lith

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Rumbeando / Andrea Marina (Ange) Garabelli

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Rumbeando / Andrea Marina (Ange) Garabelli

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ClayDance: A collaborative exploration of combining clay work with dance and movement / Elske Reyneke-Barnard and Ruth Foulkes, with Ruth Clarke and Hilda Mali

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e:merge re:form / Amelia Yiakmis and Amanda Levey

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volume 20, number 1, 2025

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Editorial – Embracing multimodal, inclusive and socially engaged practices / Ying Wang

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Previous issue – volume 19, number 2 – available here

/articles

Stillness that moves: Fostering presence as an emerging creative arts therapist / Shanti Brown

The relationship between creative arts therapists and parents of student-clients within a special education school ‎setting / Meytal Fogel-Simhony and Gal Abramovski

A grounded theory exploration of sensory and kinaesthetic engagement with clay / Theresa Van Lith and Caitlin Beale

/practice papers

Building a stronger sense of self and others: Creative Connections in an early intervention setting / Natalie Kang Qian Yi and Chong Kai Wen

Creating space for meaning: Exploring emotional integration through psychodynamic art therapy in forensic mental health / Abigail Reisner, Theresa Van Lith, Danielle Ashley and Lorrae Mynard

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

/reflections and essays

Seasons of self: A timely reflection / Anita Lever

From there and then, to here and now: Reflections on art-making and identities through an art therapy graduate exhibition / Chee Xingyu Michelle, Koh Zong Qi, Natalie Tee Yen Sean, and Svetlana (Lana) Fedotova

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Cross-pollinating embodied arts, collective well-being, and activism / Caz Steele talks to MANIFESTA director Janaína Moraes

Best practice for the use of clay in therapy – a thoughtful and practical guide / Ying Wang talks to Theresa Van Lith

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Rumbeando / Andrea Marina (Ange) Garabelli

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Rumbeando / Andrea Marina (Ange) Garabelli

ClayDance: A collaborative exploration of combining clay work with dance and movement / Elske Reyneke-Barnard and Ruth Foulkes, with Ruth Clarke and Hilda Mali

e:merge re:form / Amelia Yiakmis and Amanda Levey

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Book review – Psychedelics and Art Therapy: A Trauma-Informed Manual for Somatic Self-Discovery, by Charmaine Husum / Reviewed by Amanda Levey

Book review – Art Therapy as Cumulative Trauma Repair, by Jennifer Albright Knash / Reviewed by Georgia Polichroniadis

Thirty years later: Reflecting on Minstrels of Soul and the roots of intermodal expressive arts therapy / Richard Wainwright and Bobbie Rasmussen-Merz

Exhibition review: Truth-telling and truth-listening: A response to the work of Tennant Creek Brio / Reviewed by Jo Campbell, with Tessa Priest

Exhibition review – Internal Landscapes, Dax Centre / Reviewed by Georgia Ruby Polichroniadis