Dance and movement therapy is planned to be applied once a week as a total of 12 sessions of 60 minutes. First session; meeting, warming up, determining the group rules, explaining the principles, determining the expectations activities. Subsequent sessions; The greeting is completed with warm-up, initiation, continuation and closing activities. During the warm-up phase, the whole group comes together to form a circle, generally standing, in order to ensure the group dynamic. It starts with simple warm-up exercises such as breathing and muscle relaxation and continues with body awareness exercises. In the continuation (development of themes) stage, practices are included according to the characteristics and needs of the group.

Dance and movement therapy is planned to be applied once a week as a total of 12 sessions of 60 minutes. First session; meeting, warming up, determining the group rules, explaining the principles, determining the expectations activities. Subsequent sessions; The greeting is completed with warm-up, initiation, continuation and closing activities. During the warm-up phase, the whole group comes together to form a circle, generally standing, in order to ensure the group dynamic. It starts with simple warm-up exercises such as breathing and muscle relaxation and continues with body awareness exercises. In the continuation (development of themes) stage, practices are included according to the characteristics and needs of the group.

Scale; It consists of five parts, including flattening or blunting in affect, alogy, decreased energy and desire, lack of pleasure and social withdrawal, attention, and a total of 24 items. Scale items 0=none; 1=doubtful; 2=light; 3=medium; 4=pronounced; It is scored as 5=severe. The negative symptoms rating scale is a type of scale that the interviewer evaluates. The filling of the scale is based on the interview with the patient, the observations during the interview and the information received from the people around the patient. Cronbach's alpha for the whole scale is 0.94.

Values that can be taken from the Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS); minimum=0, maximum=120 points. It shows that as the score increases, the severity of negative symptoms increases.

Disability Assessment Chart is a 36-item scale. This tool tries to determine how much difficulty an individual with schizophrenia has while performing certain activities and consists of 6 areas that include activities that are considered important in many cultures. These are grouped under the headings of understanding and communicating, moving and moving from place to place, self-care, human relations, life activities, participation in social life. In questions about all these areas, it is asked how much difficulty the person has had during that activity in the last month, and the answers received as not at all, mild, moderate, very much, excessively/not at all are scored between 1-5. It is applied by the interviewer in approximately 20 minutes. Cronbach's alpha for the whole scale is 0.92.

Values that can be taken from the Disability Evaluation Schedule (WHO-DAS-II); minimum=0, maximum=100 points. It shows that as the score increases, the severity of disability increases.

The questionnaire form prepared by the project team consists of 10 questions in total, including the socio-demographic characteristics (age, gender, marital status, education level, employment status, income level, cohabitants) of the patients and their disease-related characteristics (age of onset of disease, duration of disease (years), number of hospitalizations).