Fractures are common accidents for long-term hospitalized patients with schizophrenia (SZ) in psychiatric hospitals, and once they occur, patients usually endure the pain of fractures for a long time. Accumulating evidence has supported the implementation of dance/movement therapy (DMT) as a promising intervention for patients with SZ. However, no research has been conducted to investigate its role in balance ability in SZ. This study was designed to investigate the efficacy of a 12-week DMT intervention in bone mineral density and balance ability in patients with SZ using a randomized, controlled trial design. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
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Open access. People with a psychotic disorder have an increased risk of becoming the victim of a crime. To prevent victimization a body-oriented resilience therapy using kickboxing exercises was developed. This study aims to explore the feasibility of the therapy, to improve the therapy protocol and to explore suitable outcomes for a RCT.
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With all the performers having either lived experience of psychosis or lived experience of caring for someone with psychosis, the festival aims to fight stigma, promote hope, offer easy accessible information, inspiration, help and support.
The only festival ever to be organized by a whole early intervention service in the UK, the event will feature live music and inspirational talks from service users as well as helpful information stalls about local mental health services. The festival will have food stalls, music and mindfulness workshops and an interactive sport stall run by Bristol Rovers Football Community Trust.
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Art therapy enables individuals to use art to creatively express themselves and communicate differently with themselves, others, and their reality. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines for psychosis and schizophrenia suggest that arts therapies, which include art therapy, are considered to improve negative symptoms of psychosis. We examined the effectiveness of art therapy for people with psychosis and explored whether art therapy is a meaningful and acceptable intervention in this Review. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Comment. In The Lancet Psychiatry, Angelica Attard and Michael Larkin1 present a narrative review on the effectiveness, meaningfulness, and acceptability of art therapy in patients with psychosis. This effort is much appreciated and contributes to the urgently needed advancement of the evidence base for art therapy in the mental health realm. The findings show that, especially for specific mental health conditions and indications, the evidence base for art therapy is underdeveloped given the widespread application of related interventions in the fields of psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Come and visit our first pop-up library at Severn Fields, Shrewsbury 19th July 11.00am-3.00pm. Join the library, borrow and return books, get help finding information and evidence, set up an Athens account, find out what the library can do for you and your team.
The Psychosis Health Integration Team is marking its official launch with a series of film screenings at the Watershed during June called Psychosis on Screen.
The new 'HIT' team, made up of academics, commissioners, psychologists, care and support providers and other experts, as well as service users and their families and carers, will work together to give people who experience psychosis, families and carers a voice and to improve the support provided.
The study by Daniel Freeman and colleagues published yesterday in the British Journal of Psychiatry looks at using virtual reality to reduce persecutory delusions. I am a medical student in Oxford where the majority of the authors of this research work (*conflict of interest alert*).
Freeman and colleagues suggest one reason why people continue to believe their delusions is that they engage in safety behaviours (things that make them feel safe) which prevent them from discovering and processing evidence that disproves their beliefs.
Virtual reality may offer a way to challenge unfounded beliefs by exposing people to evidence that disproves their delusions and encourages them to stop their safety behaviours.
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Open access. Music therapy (MT) has been used as adjunct therapy for schizophrenia for decades. However, its role is still inconclusive. A recent meta-analysis demonstrated that MT for schizophrenic patients only significantly benefits negative symptoms and mood symptoms rather than positive symptoms. In addition, the association between specific characteristics of MT and the treatment effect remains unclear. The aim of this study was to update the published data and to explore the role of music therapy in adjunct treatment in schizophrenia with a thorough meta-analysis.
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