It often includes psychotic experie

It often includes psychotic experiences, such as hearing voices and delusions. It can impair functioning through the loss of anacquired capability to earn a living. Serious mental disordershave considerable individual and societal impact. Antipsychotics are the mainstay of schizophrenia treatment, but first and second generation antipsychotics may cause side effects.In Taiwan, when National Health Insurance began in 1995, 12,023 schizophrenia patients were registered with mental and physical disabilities. In 2011, the num-ber increased to 113,992, which was 9.3 times higher thanthat of 15 years earlier.3Schizophrenia is a crucial chronicdisease which requires long-term rehabilitation. Thus far several types of social rehabilitation group have been established, including social skills training, coping-with-stress training, occupational therapy, art therapy, music therapy, and entertainment therapy. Of these therapy types,music therapy has shown significant effects in treating schizophrenia