TY - JOUR
T1 - NICE guidelines for schizophrenia
T2 - can art therapy be justified?
AU - Bastiampillai, Tarun
AU - Allison, Stephen
AU - Gupta, Arun
PY - 2016/11/1
Y1 - 2016/11/1
N2 - NICE guidelines for schizophrenia recommend that art therapies are offered to all people with schizophrenia, particularly for the alleviation of negative symptoms. In their narrative review of art therapy for people with psychosis in The Lancet Psychiatry, Angelica Attard and Michael Larkin found little quantitative evidence for its effectiveness, and only a few qualitative studies qualitative studies suggesting that it could be beneficial. Indeed, on the basis of their negative findings, the investigators of a large pragmatic trial of group art therapy (MATISSE) rightly challenged the NICE guidelines, that clinicians consider referring all patients with schizophrenia for art therapies...
AB - NICE guidelines for schizophrenia recommend that art therapies are offered to all people with schizophrenia, particularly for the alleviation of negative symptoms. In their narrative review of art therapy for people with psychosis in The Lancet Psychiatry, Angelica Attard and Michael Larkin found little quantitative evidence for its effectiveness, and only a few qualitative studies qualitative studies suggesting that it could be beneficial. Indeed, on the basis of their negative findings, the investigators of a large pragmatic trial of group art therapy (MATISSE) rightly challenged the NICE guidelines, that clinicians consider referring all patients with schizophrenia for art therapies...
KW - Schizophrenia
KW - Art therapy
KW - NICE guidelines
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84994174932&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/S2215-0366(16)30322-4
DO - 10.1016/S2215-0366(16)30322-4
M3 - Letter
C2 - 27794367
AN - SCOPUS:84994174932
SN - 2215-0366
VL - 3
SP - 1016
EP - 1017
JO - The Lancet Psychiatry
JF - The Lancet Psychiatry
IS - 11
ER -