This intervention will provide educational lectures on disability, sleep hygiene, and current research on depression and nondirective, supportive discussions about these topics.

The MOS SF-36V is a well-established standard measure of quality of life (QOL) scale, to assess mental and physical health as well as functional status, adapted for Veterans. The MOS SF-36V consists of the same eight sections as the civilian version, MOS SF-36. Higher scores indicate better quality of life. The instrument provides a global score, as well as the following subscale scores: functional capacity, physical aspects, pain, general health condition, vitality, social aspects and emotional aspects, and mental health.

The Sleep Diary is a commonly used self-reported sleep assessment measure. Participants will be asked to complete a sleep diary for seven days. In the sleep diary, participants will record different daily events and activities (e.g., the number of times they wake up during the night, whether they have been drinking caffeinated beverages, or exercising). Sleep-related entries include recording when they go to bed, when they think they fell asleep, duration of sleep, and naps during the day.

The Sleep Diary is a commonly used self-reported sleep assessment measure. Participants will be asked to complete a sleep diary for seven days. In the sleep diary, participants will record different daily events and activities (e.g., the number of times they wake up during the night, whether they have been drinking caffeinated beverages, or exercising). Sleep-related entries include recording when they go to bed, when they think they fell asleep, duration of sleep, and naps during the day.

The non-invasive heart rate and motion detection device will be used to quantify physical activity during sleep for assessment of sleep quality as a measure of sleep disturbance. Each participant will be asked to wear the device for 2 consecutive days of home assessment.

The non-invasive heart rate and motion detection device will be used to quantify heart rate variability for assessment of sleep quality as a measure of sleep disturbance. Each participant will be asked to wear the device for 2 consecutive days of home assessment.

The BPI is one of the most widely used instruments for assessing clinical pain. Patients rate their current pain intensity and also pain in the last 24 hours at its worst, least, and average by using a numeric scale of 0 (no pain) to 10 (pain as bad as you can imagine). Patients also rate the extent to which their pain interferes with 7 quality of life domains identifying how they feel and their functionality, e.g., general activity, walking, mood, sleep, work, relations with other persons, and enjoyment of life.

The CES-D is one of the most common validated screening tests for helping an individual to determine their depression quotient. The 20-item test measures depressive feelings and behaviors during the past week.

One of the few well-validated measures of resilience is the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC), comprising 25 items.

The PSS measures the degree to which participants consider situations to be stressful, based on the extent to which they perceive their lives to be unpredictable, uncontrollable, or overloaded. It measures the amount of stress in one's life rather than response to a specific stressor.

The SCS comprises 26 items and is used to measure self-compassion, an emotionally positive self-attitude that should protect against the negative consequences of self-judgment, isolation, and rumination (such as depression). Self-compassion seems to entail three main components: 1) self-kindness, being kind and understanding toward oneself in instances of pain or failure rather than being harshly self-critical, 2) common humanity, perceiving one's experiences as part of the larger human experience rather than seeing them as separating and isolating, and 3) mindfulness, holding painful thoughts and feelings in balanced awareness rather than over-identifying with them. Thus, SCS may be used to assess the potential benefits induced by mindfulness based interventions, which may be strongly related to the construct of self-compassion.

The FF-MQ includes 39 items and assesses five distinct, interpretable facets of mindfulness, including: 1) observing, 2) describing, 3) acting with awareness, 4) non-judging of inner experience, and 5) non-reactivity to inner experience.

The WBI is a five item scale evaluating both positive and negative aspects of emotional functioning, developed and validated by the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre in Mental Health.

The ''distressed'', or Type D, personality combines two basic traits: negative affectivity (NA) and social inhibition (SI). NA refers to individuals with a tendency to experience negative emotions (strongly related to the construct of neuroticism, while SI is the tendency to inhibit emotions and behaviors in social interactions (related to the construct of introversion). The scale consists of seven items each assessing NA and SI (14-items). Participants rate their personality on a 5-point Likert scale by being asked to rate to what degree statements are true for them, on a 5-point scale (0=false; 4=true). A cutoff score of 10 on both the NA and the SI scale is used to classify participants as having a Type D personality.

The Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation is a self-report scale comprising 21 items used to detect and measure the intensity of a person's attitudes, behaviors, and plans to commit suicide during the past week. It was developed as a self-report version of the interviewer-administered Scale for Suicide Ideation (SSI). As with the SSI, in the BSI there are five screening items to reduce the need for those not presenting with suicidal ideation from having to complete the entire scale. The ratings for the first 19 items are summed to yield a total score, ranging from 0 to 38.

Two closely related constructs, body awareness and interoceptive awareness are suggested as potential mediators of the health benefits of mind-body therapies, including, mindfulness meditation, Tai Chi and yoga. This assessment scale comprising 32 items serves to identify and distinguish beneficial and maladaptive body awareness. The MAIA comprises eight subscales: Noticing, Distracting, Worrying, Attention Regulation, Emotional Awareness, Self-Regulation, Body Listening and Trusting.

The participants will perform a sustained attention task in which they identify targets (such as the letter 'x') presented in a series of sequential non-targets (such as the digits 1- 9) either in the center or to either side of a fixation point. During this task, the probe will ask participants to describe their thoughts at intermittent intervals.

Cortisol is considered an essential player in understanding stress and stress related effects in the field of psychoneuroendocrinology. Participants will be trained in the routine collection of saliva samples using Salivettes (Sarstedt, Inc, Germany). Participants will be required to collect 8 saliva samples at specified times over the course of 48 hours at Pre, Post, 3 month follow-up.

α-amylase is considered a proxy measure of norepinephrine and epinephrine neurotransmitters involved in the stress response. Thus, α-amylase provides some indication of an individuals level of arousal related to stress. Participants will be trained in the routine collection of saliva samples using Salivettes (Sarstedt, Inc, Germany). Participants will be required to collect 8 saliva samples at specified times over the course of 48 hours at Pre, Post, 3 month follow-up.

Cortisol is considered an essential player in understanding stress and stress related effects in the field of psychoneuroendocrinology. The awakening response indicates an individual's level of arousal at the time of awakening. Participants will be trained in the routine collection of saliva samples using Salivettes (Sarstedt, Inc, Germany). Participants will be required to collect 8 saliva samples at specified times over the course of 48 hours at Pre, Post, 3 month follow-up.

α-amylase is considered a proxy measure of norepinephrine and epinephrine neurotransmitters involved in reactions to stress. The awakening response indicates an individual's level of arousal at the time of awakening. Participants will be trained in the routine collection of saliva samples using Salivettes (Sarstedt, Inc, Germany). Participants will be required to collect 8 saliva samples at specified times over the course of 48 hours at Pre, Post, 3 month follow-up.