Digital Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Chinese Adolescents With Depressive Symptoms（CADS-D )

Moca is a mobile application designed to deliver structural CBT for adolescents with mood problems. Moca provides six-twelve guided sessions with an estimated proceeding duration of 25-45min each, developed to be processed weekly. The content of each session includes the introduction of the core concepts and principles of CBT, psychological counseling dialogue, skill exercises, and homework. Content presentation forms include text, animation, audio, comics, etc. At the end of each module, the participants will be asked to submit homework that will ask them to apply their learned skills to nursing or daily life situations that they personally perceive as stressful. Participants can review the completed sessions and record their mood status during the intervention period.

The content of regular mental health curriculum includes mental health education lecture. Few lectures address the knowledge and skills involved in CBT in such education lecture.