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Recent articles

Visuals Conversations Features 20/06/2025 On the Edge of Practice
Words Features Observations 20/06/2025 Working on the Edge
Visuals Profiles Observations 18/06/2025 Polyphonic Student Capsule
Interviews Profiles 17/06/2025 Beyond Self-Care and the Life Enrichment Model: Lisa Hinz
Reviews 11/06/2025 Review: The Kramer Method of Art Therapy
Words Features 05/06/2025 The Sealwoman: A Dramatherapy Re-Visioning of the Hero’s Journey
Gallery Observations 27/08/2024 Polyphonic Gallery - A Space to Share Creative Expression
Gallery Submissions 25/08/2024 Submissions Call: Polyphonic Gallery
Reviews 22/08/2024 Review: Trauma-Informed Drama Therapy
Features 21/08/2024 Practice paper: Incorporating a Music Therapy Practice Within a Conservatoire Setting
Visuals Features 11/07/2024 Practice Paper: Integrating Art Therapy in Educational Counselling Services
Words 10/07/2024 Social Prescribing: An Alternative Form of Treatment in Memory and Cognitive Disorders
Features 17/06/2024 Potential Spaces in Virtual Places: A Reflection Series
Observations 16/06/2024 In Here, Out There: Nature Connection
Performances 15/06/2024 Reflection: Common Threads Project/Threads of Resilience
Conversations 26/01/2024 The First All Ireland Convocation Frontiers Conference
Talking 04/01/2024 Healing and Growing Through Arts Therapies: Mary McAleese
Talking 03/01/2024 Pioneering Art Therapy in Northern Ireland: Rita Simon's Journey
Conversations Profiles 06/11/2023 The Early Days of IACAT: A Conversation
06/11/2023 Submissions Call: Frontiers in Creative Arts Therapies
Music Features 11/09/2023 'Would you like a song?' Honing a music therapy approach with help from Sinéad O’Connor
Interviews 11/09/2023 Trauma and the Body in Art Psychotherapy: A Conversation with Claire Colreavy Donnelly
Features 18/06/2023 The Semi-Structured Art Therapy Assessment Tool: An Insight into the Client's World
Visuals 18/06/2023 Exploring the Semi-Structured Art Therapy Assessment Tool: A Video Case Study
Words 17/06/2023 Leveraging Arts-Based Practices for Enhanced Learning and Wellbeing in Teacher Education
Words 27/05/2023 Art as Therapy: Creative Interventions in the Primary School Classroom
Reviews 20/05/2023 Review: Conversation Starters: Working with Children & Adolescents After Trauma
Reviews 20/05/2023 Review: Ecopoiesis: A New Perspective for the Expressive and Creative Arts Therapies
Profiles 09/01/2023 Podcast: Vicky Linnane Interviews Rowena Keaveny, Polyphony Co-Editor
Interviews Conversations Talking Listening 08/01/2023 Podcast: A Conversation with the Polyphony Editorial Team
Reviews Observations 10/11/2022 Review: Handbook of Expressive Arts Therapy
Visuals 11/04/2022 Art Therapy & Dementia: Lucidity, Consciousness & Cognitive Capacity
Performances Music 10/04/2022 "I Have Found My Voice": A Music Therapy Group in a HSE Unit
Reviews Observations 08/04/2022 Review: Intersectionality in the Arts Psychotherapies
Words Music 06/03/2022 Employment after Graduation from the MA Music Therapy, UL
Listening 21/02/2021 Embrace Therapy Podcast: Reap What You Sow
Words Reviews 07/10/2020 Review: Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy
Words Conversations 26/07/2020 To Zoom or not to Zoom in COVID-19: A Conversation Piece
Visuals Observations 26/07/2020 COVID-19: How to Move at a Standstill
Words Observations 16/07/2020 Drama Therapy During COVID-19: A Call to Digital Adventure
Features Observations 15/07/2020 Growing Pains: The Creative Arts Therapies in Ireland
Features 15/07/2020 Creative Arts Therapists in Ireland: Full Report
Features Observations 14/07/2020 Creative Arts Therapists in Ireland 2020: A Survey of Key Findings
Observations 24/06/2020 Creative Arts Therapy Practice During COVID-19: Survey Findings
Words Observations 24/06/2020 COVID-19: Creative Arts Therapies Crossing the Digital Divide
Reviews 05/05/2020 Review: Arts Therapies with People with Physical Disabilities
Words Features 04/05/2020 Meeting in COVID-19: A Drama Therapeutic Processing of Isolation
Visuals 20/04/2020 Poiesis: Encountering a Philosophy of Composition within COVID-19
Archive 19/04/2020 Printed IACAT Journal Archive from May 2013 to May 2019
Conversations Listening 21/02/2020 Embrace Therapy Podcast: Woods for Wellbeing
Visuals Gallery 08/02/2020 Beyond Form: An Exhibition of Paintings by Dearbhail Connon
Words Visuals 07/02/2020 An Art Therapist’s Experience of Dance Movement Therapy
Poetry 07/02/2020 mycroglia motions written into maps flesh and bone...
Words Performances 07/02/2020 Sensorygraphy: Performance Poetry as Artistic Intervention
Reviews 07/02/2020 Review: Ethical Issues in Art Therapy (4th Edition)
Performances Sounds 03/02/2020 Barış Manço: Songs, Embodiment & Creative Drama
Words Performances 02/02/2020 The Moving Body: The Devising Process of 'Love Loss Life'
Words Interviews 30/01/2020 BodyDreaming: A Conversation with Marian Dunlea
Sounds Music 29/01/2020 Inclusion and Empowerment in Music Therapy Research
Sounds Listening 28/01/2020 Hilary Moss: Sharing Conversations with the World
Words Poetry 27/01/2020 Drink these star-leafed nettles and keep in your purse a fern.
Words Interviews 26/01/2020 Writing the Language of the Body: Áine Stapleton's Score
Words 25/01/2020 Interconnected Embodiment: A Creative Arts Therapy Peer Group
Words Interviews 25/01/2020 Trauma Healing at the Clay Field: A Conversation with Cornelia Elbrecht
Reviews 25/01/2020 Review: Before You Let the Sun In and Other Dramatherapeutic Stories
Reviews 25/01/2020 Review: Basic Verbal Skills for Music Therapists
Words Observations 25/01/2020 Dance Movement Psychotherapy in Ireland: A Journey
Poetry Visuals Gallery 25/01/2020 A Language of Pain: Visual Mark-Making and Blackout Poetry
Sounds Music 19/01/2020 From Silence into a Musical Space: COVID-19 Engaged Music Listening

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Features

Visuals Conversations Features 20/06/2025 On the Edge of Practice
Features 21/08/2024 Practice paper: Incorporating a Music Therapy Practice Within a Conservatoire Setting
Features 17/06/2024 Potential Spaces in Virtual Places: A Reflection Series

Words

Words 10/07/2024 Social Prescribing: An Alternative Form of Treatment in Memory and Cognitive Disorders
Words 17/06/2023 Leveraging Arts-Based Practices for Enhanced Learning and Wellbeing in Teacher Education
Words 27/05/2023 Art as Therapy: Creative Interventions in the Primary School Classroom

Visuals

Visuals Conversations Features 20/06/2025 On the Edge of Practice
Visuals Profiles Observations 18/06/2025 Polyphonic Student Capsule
Visuals 18/06/2023 Exploring the Semi-Structured Art Therapy Assessment Tool: A Video Case Study

Sounds

Performances Sounds 03/02/2020 Barış Manço: Songs, Embodiment & Creative Drama
Sounds Music 29/01/2020 Inclusion and Empowerment in Music Therapy Research
Sounds Listening 28/01/2020 Hilary Moss: Sharing Conversations with the World