Mindfulness Meditation as a Rehabilitation Strategy for Persons With Schizophrenia

Mindfulness involves teaching individuals skills that improve their ability to attend to their experience in the present moment while suspending judgment and to purposefully shift their attention. Thus mindfulness enhances the ability to monitor and manage emotions and thought processes so that individuals can reflect on, choose, and implement more effective responses. This intervention has been adapted from mindfulness based stress reduction treatment.

A support group during which participants can discuss with each other any issues, problems, or successes at work will be conducted as the control portion.