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Method of levels therapy for first-episode psychosis: rationale, design and baseline data for the feasibility randomised controlled Next Level study.
BJPsych Open
September 2018
Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Manchester, UK.
Background: Method of levels (MOL) is an innovative transdiagnostic cognitive therapy with potential advantages over existing psychological treatments for psychosis.
Aims: The Next Level study is a feasibility randomised controlled trial (RCT) of MOL for people experiencing first-episode psychosis. It aims to determine the suitability of MOL for further testing in a definitive trial (trial registration ISRCTN13359355).
NICE v. SIGN on psychosis and schizophrenia: same roots, similar guidelines, different interpretations.
Br J Psychiatry
April 2016
Tim Kendall, FRCPsych, National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London, and Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust; Craig J. Whittington, PhD, Doctor Evidence; Elizabeth Kuipers, FBPsS, Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London; Sonia Johnson, FRCPsych, Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London, London, and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, London; Max J. Birchwood, FBPsS, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry; Max Marshall, FRCPsych, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust and School of Medicine, Manchester University, Manchester; Anthony P. Morrison, FBPsS, University of Manchester and Psychosis Research Unit, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK.
A recent editorial claimed that the 2014 National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline on psychosis and schizophrenia, unlike its equivalent 2013 Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) guideline, is biased towards psychosocial treatments and against drug treatments. In this paper we underline that the NICE and SIGN guidelines recommend similar interventions, but that the NICE guideline has more rigorous methodology. Our analysis suggests that the authors of the editorial appear to have succumbed to bias themselves.
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