Table I.

Units of meaning, codes, subcategories, categories, and theme regarding clients’ experiences of the BPR.

Meaning unit	Condensed meaning units	Code	Subcategory	Category	Theme
Well, work more together with a psychologist and set targets and when it's become time also to apply for a course. He helped me to formulate my goals more than just having this diffuse lot. (Participant 8)	He helped me to verbalize my goals more specifically than my usual diffuse thoughts	To follow-up the individual goals throughout the rehabilitation process	To get help to verbalize individual goals	Increased self-understanding	A sense of being in communion with self and others
It felt as if I … had a duty to fulfil. Not just having something to do, but what I did here did not just achieve my own goals … Even if I had one of those really terrible days and didn't want to get up and thought that life was worthless, then I still made a contribution by doing something for someone else. (Participant 2)	Although I had a real awful day, I contributed by doing something useful for others.	To focus on real activities	To do something useful
Being as one notices that … as I said…that he knows what he is talking about and he refers to many, both books and things I have read. Because he worked out fairly quickly that I am the sort who likes to find out why they say so, where they've got the information from…. (Participant 7)	He knows what he is talking about and he refers to many books I have read. He learned fast that I am the kind who wants to know the origin of the information he gave me	That your keyworker knows what he is talking about and is able to give you references	To know the origin of information
All these papers and all this work with rehabilitation together with my keyworker gave me hope because I was forced to work intensely with myself … You were forced to think the thought, it created hope and motivation. You could feel frustration and other feelings that you didn't know you had in this job. You're forced to see that you could actually do something you believed you weren't able to influence. You challenge your own thoughts. I've really had use for this in everyday life, not just in the rehabilitation. (Participant 10)	You are forced to realize that you are able to do something that you thought you could not manage to do	To be forced to think constructively helps you feel hope and motivation	To challenge established negative thoughts	Getting new perspectives
I think that it's a lot to do with the fact you have influence on how the rehabilitation is to be done. Because it took a few times before we realized that the best way was that he was to be a sort of sounding board, where he tests ideas and helps you to see things in a way that you wouldn't have done otherwise. And thus gets you to start thinking for yourself. (Participant 4)	He mirrors my ideas and helps me see things in a way that I had not thought about otherwise. It helped me to start thinking in a new way	To get help to see things that you had not thought about otherwise and thus get help to start thinking in a new way	To support positive thinking
Through discussions and that it hasn't been that he sits up there while I'm down here, we've been equals in the room. (Participant 6)	No one is sitting on a pedestal and no one is sitting down there but we have been equal in the room	To be equal in the discussions	To share decision making
I don't want to have anyone else. No stand-ins, nothing. I really trust her, but she's had to go through … At the beginning when I meet people that I'm going to meet often then I have some sort of unconscious testing time, where I forget them, don't care about them. She's shown herself worthy of my trust there. (Participant 1)	I don't want anybody else. No substitute, nothing … . Now I have great trust in her, but she had to pass some trials to earn my trust	To feel great confidence in your keyworker after some trials	To build trust in the keyworker	Being in a trusting relationship
If a person sighs and if you get the feeling that you ought to be ashamed then you don't want to be with them. If you've been mobbed as I have, then you assume that others don't want to be with you. She was personal and it's important, that you feel this warmth between the two of you…. (Participant 3)	She was personal and that is important … to feel the closeness between you and the keyworker	She was personal and that is important, to feel friendliness between you and the keyworker	To like and understand each other