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. 2025 May 30;14:e70627. doi: 10.2196/70627

Table 1.

Modules included in the Daylight digital cognitive behavioral therapy app.

Intervention module Brief description CBTa principle Learning goals
Worry scheduling and worry time Scheduling a specific time and pace to worry (Worry Scheduling), and then cycling through worrisome thoughts (Worry Time). Stimulus control
  • Learn to associate worry with a designated time and space.

  • Learn to delay worry until a designated time.

  • Learn to tolerate worry without avoidance.

Tense and release Tensing and releasing muscles with relaxation cues. Applied relaxation
  • Increase awareness of tension.

  • Increase awareness of the difference between tensed and relaxed muscles.

  • Learn to reduce muscle tension.

Thought challenger Identifying catastrophic or unhelpful thoughts and using challenge questions to develop new perspectives on these thoughts. Cognitive restructuring (decatastrophizing)
  • Increase awareness of catastrophic and unhelpful thoughts.

  • Learn to challenge catastrophic thoughts.

  • Increase cognitive flexibility.

Worry exposure Imagining the “worst case scenario” or feared outcome of a specific worry. Imaginal exposure
  • Learn to tolerate emotions associated with feared outcomes.

  • Facilitate cognitive reappraisal of feared outcomes.

  • Facilitate habituation to fear response (ie, fear extinction).

aCBT: cognitive behavioral therapy.