 Objectives: Schizophrenia involves numerous difficulties including being aware of ones own thoughts and tolerating painful affects. As a result, persons with schizophrenia find coping with life stressors quite challenging and thus have difficulty engaging successfully in psychosocial activities such as work in spite of state of the art programs. To address this problem this study will evaluate an intervention that has come to the fore that targets these impairments called mindfulness. 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. Use of mindfulness skills with other populations has led to more sustained behavior change than occurs with standard treatments. Recently research has begun to indicate mindfulness interventions can be delivered with success for individuals with schizophrenia. This pilot study will be a first step in adapting mindfulness as a cognitive intervention for individuals with schizophrenia who are engaging in vocational rehabilitation in order to maintain their functional gains beyond the end of the program. Key questions to be answered through this study include: 1 Can a mindfulness manual be developed that helps persons with schizophrenia enrolled in vocational rehabilitation exhibit better work function and reduced levels of distressing emotional states and thinking patterns?; 2 Can materials necessary for the faithful transmission of the mindfulness group interventionmanual MGI in the current study be created?; 3 Can mindfulness skills be adapted and successfully taught to and accepted by persons with schizophrenia in a group setting?: 4 Will individuals with schizophrenia who practice mindfulness benefit?; 5 What are the effect sizes with a reasonable control to study the effectiveness of the manualized MGI? Research Design: This study will take place over 3 years and is divided into two phases: manual development and pilot study. In the manual development phase existing mindfulness protocols will be adapted to target work function of persons with schizophrenia. The randomized controlled pilot study phase will explore the effects of the intervention on key outcome measures. 