Editorial of the summer issue of Creative Arts in Education and Therapy Journal

What is it about?

The summer 2023 issue of the CAET Journal offers a focus on the power of the arts in the social net as a way to cross knowledge borders and expand dialogue in service of relational, transformative practices. The global collection includes theoretical, East/West perspectives, philosophical positions, Laban analysis, original experimental, and artistic and art-based research, with real-world clinical and educational applications. There is a thread throughout this collection that brings alive the role of research that illuminates underrepresented topics such as chronic pelvic pain in women, childhood selective mutism, paternal perspectives of violent men, and socio-emotional issues of job-seeking. The collection also includes critical social reflective practices and understanding of the importance of arts and liminal spaces.

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Photo by Andrew Valdivia on Unsplash

Photo by Andrew Valdivia on Unsplash

Why is it important?

The authors write of practices that show support for personal growth and deep, thoughtful arts inquiry of anthropology-informed relational knowing and empathic engagement. These qualities and characteristics of the authors’ work and their perspectives are at the heart of this issue and philosophy of IACAET.This edition is intended to shine a bright light on the importance of artistic intention and empathy in theory, practice, and research. Together, building engagement with our social net and encouraging one another to think deeply and engage in creative processes that in itself becomes the border crossings of global, interrelated approaches in the arts