Mindful Self Compassion in Rehabilitation Inpatients

Mindful Self Compassion (MSC) training has its primary focus on developing a friendly relationship with oneself by meditation,conversation with the group and the trainer, informal practice and homework assignments. These relationship is founded on mindfulness; therefore the participants will learn a way concentrate on the present moment. The orginal MSC training by Neff and Germer is well established, this intervention will be a shortened form of the original version and will last for the whole visit of the clinical patients in rehabilitation

Progressive Muscle Relaxation by Jacobson is a well known relaxation technique where participants learn to recognize the difference between tension and relaxation by tensing and subsequently relaxing the muscles. The trainingw ill last the wohole stay and the control group will also do homework assignments.