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.

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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

Previous issue – volume 20, number 1 – available here

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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

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

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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

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

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

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

/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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Inquiring into inquiry: A reflexive portrait of autoethnographic arts-based research / RTM

Whispers from the bush: A curio-cabinet for nature’s worries / Mishy Rowan

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Book review – A New Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy, by Mamood Ahmad / Reviewed by Noha O. Aly

Exhibition review – Troubled &/ Beyond, by Paul Rhodes / Reviewed by Jasmine Kaur Ahluwalia

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Practice papers and case studies will be published here in the coming months.