Table 2 Title and content of sessions of the CBT program My Health too
Session number | Session title | Session content |
|---|---|---|
1 | The psychological mechanisms of stress | Psychoeducation on Lazarus and Folkman’s [43] transactional stress model; cognitive restructuring |
2 | Useful behaviors during highly stressful situations | Functional coping strategies (e.g., problem-solving, social support, relaxation, and cognitive restructuring) |
3 | Mindfulness in everyday life | Mindfulness vs. automatic pilot; mindful observation; 3-min mindfulness practice; letting go of the automatic pilot to improve sleep |
4 | Dropping the anchor in the present moment to increase resilience | Mindfulness/acceptance skills (i.e., dropping the anchor, cognitive defusion) |
5 | Engaging in valued actions | Understanding how values are linked to emotions; identification of values, and valued actions |
6 | Self-compassion to improve self-care | Psychoeducation on compassion as a psychological skill to soothe difficult emotions and self-criticism [45]; barriers to self-compassion; compassion as a means to self-care |
7 | Self-compassion to improve emotion regulation | How to use self-compassion to soothe difficult emotions; using self-compassion as a means to self-care; compassion-focused mindfulness [46] |