volume 18, number 2, 2023
Published by The Journal of Creative Arts Therapies, the online and open access publication of ANZACATA.
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ISSN: 2652-9459
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Editorial team
Chief Editor Sheridan Linnell
Co-Editors Stacey Bush, Catherine Camden-Pratt, Caryn Griffin, Deborah Green and Daniel Wong
Arts Editor and Journal Coordinator Vic Segedin
Copy Editors / Proofreaders Anne Gordon, Marie Shannon
Design and production Vic Segedin
Peer review
The editorial team wishes to thank all the peer reviewers who generously contribute their time and expertise to this edition of JoCAT. Accepted submissions are reviewed by people well versed and respected in the subject or methodology of the submission.
The following have been double anonymously peer-reviewed by two reviewers:
Articles:
‘Co-creating healing spaces with children: Community-based creative arts therapy in South India’ by Pallavi Chander, Evan Hastings, Geet (Sangeeta Goel), Shravanthi Ventakesh and Nidhi Khurana.
‘A healing journey: Using a daily visual journal practice to process the emotional experience of early breast cancer’ by Katherine Winlaw.
‘Spiritual care in art therapy: What happens when the therapist and client are of different religions? An art therapist’s heuristic exploration’ by Mandy Jay.
‘Disenfranchised grief: An art-based research inquiry’ by Susannah Morrison.
‘Spadix, stems and scar-wounds: Finding inter/intra-sentient language through dialogue with material-other(s’ by Michele Fairbairn.
Practice papers:
‘Seeking wordlessness: Reflections on a knitted journal’ by Celeste Choo.
‘Exhibiting my identity: Exploring the intersection of artist and arts therapist’ by Donna Hedström Gold.
‘Stretching material possibilities within the creative arts therapies: Exploring margarine, charcoal and sound, and their affective entanglements within co-responsive ecosystems’ by Virginia Frankovich.
Reflections and essays:
‘Day in, day out: A contemplation of daily practice’ by Bettina Evans, Deborah Green, Kathrin Marks, Hilary Tapper.
