MBERT
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INFECTION
The psychotherapeutic training sessions followed a predefined script (see also Procedure of the trials in the MBERT.During each training session, which took approximately 1 to 1.5 h, patients sat in front of a table on a comfortable chair with the fNIRS-cap on their head and the fNIRS-machine in their back. The psychotherapist was sitting on their left-hand side at an angle of approximately 90 degrees. As the study was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, for reasons of infection protection there was a plexiglass shield between the patients and the therapist and the latter wore a face mask.Between sessions the patients were encouraged to practice the taught ER strategies in their daily lives and to also do mindfulness training and meditation using a free-access application (“Meditation Time”). For this purpose, they were further given worksheets they could use to go through the strategy of the sessions by themselves (see 