About the Journal
Focus and scope
The South African Journal of Arts Therapy (SAJAT) is dedicated to fostering dialogue and research on Arts Therapies across Africa and the Global South. SAJAT is focussed on considering how arts and culture have had an instrumental role in forging identities and post-colonial scholarship which promotes cultural diversity, inclusivity and social justice. The purpose of SAJAT is to provide a scholarly forum to advance the understanding of how art therapy, alongside other arts therapy modalities, contribute to the treatment, education, development, and enrichment of people who engage with them. This is a new platform for a broad spectrum of ideas in therapy, practice, professional issues and research.
SAJAT promotes creative expression, imagination and innovative practices in arts therapy scholarship which furthers the practices of mental health services that actively respond to societal trauma and challenges facing children and adults. SAJAT aims to be representative of a variety of arts therapy modalities, cognisant of the value of a dynamic interface between the visual arts, dance, movement, music and drama as well as interdisciplinary fields that provide a platform for under-represented African arts therapists on the global stage. It extends knowledge and education in the field for mental health and allied professionals.
SAJAT welcomes contributions from established and emerging scholars, and is open to proposals for Themed Issues, guest edited by leading scholars in relevant arts therapy modalities. SAJAT is the newest publication in the field and showcases emerging and established voices in Africa-centred scholarship.
SAJAT is owned and published by the University of Johannesburg Press, and is financially supported by UJ research funding with external support. SAJAT publishes original papers that have not been published previously. This includes: academic articles, research papers, academic reviews, relevant communications, conference papers, position papers, reflective writing, and visual research. SAJAT is an open access journal that doesn’t charge any fees either to readers to read, nor to authors to publish. Contributions to SAJAT are to be submitted in English with summaries in English. The journal is open to all researchers globally, regardless of gender, career stage or ethnic and religious affiliation.
The journal is issued twice every year.
The articles published are archived and indexed accordingly through CLOCKSS, LOCKSS and the PKP PN.
About the Journal
The purpose of the journal is to provide a scholarly forum to advance the understanding of how art therapy and visual art contribute to the treatment, education, development, and enrichment of people. This is a new platform for broad spectrum of ideas in therapy, practice, professional issues and research. SAJAT is the newest publication in the field and showcases emerging and established voices in Africa-centered scholarship.
Art therapy is a mental health profession that enriches the lives of individuals, families, and communities through active art-making, creative process, applied psychological theory, and human experience within a psychotherapeutic relationship.
Submissions
Publishes two issues a year in April and in September and a special edition may be considered from time to time. Issues are available as open access. The Journal invites manuscripts all through the year, submitted online through its website in two versions, one being anonymous. Research articles and essays must be between 5,000 and 7,000 words long. Commentary and debate articles must be 3,000 to 4,000 words responding to a debate or a topical issue. The journal has a dedicated space for the voices of emerging scholars/students. Emerging scholars’ essays must be 1,500 to 3,000 words long. All must be prepared according to author guidelines. We encourage the submission of book reviews of up to 1,500 words in length. Longer review articles that debate the book will also be considered at 2,000 to 4,000 words in length.
Author fees
The journal subscribes to the principle that results of largely public-funded research must be published without article processing charges (APCs) on contributors.
Open Access
This journal is fully Open Access. The journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 South Africa (CC BY-NC 2.0 ZA).
Copyright
Authors retain the copyright to their articles.
Archiving and Indexing
The articles published are archived and indexed accordingly through CLOCKSS, LOCKSS and the PKP PN.
Funding
Authors must acknowledge their sources of funding under a specific heading.
Privacy Statement
The names and addresses specified when registering will be used solely for purposes of correspondence with the Author or reviewers (editors) when preparing the article for publication.
Private data will not be shared with other individuals and organizations without first seeking the permission of the owners of such data.
Online ISSN: 2960-1614