4 papers
Move by Move: Measuring and Steering How LLMs Conduct Psychotherapy
Afonso Baldo, Hugo Pitorro, Areti Vassilopoulos +5
Users increasingly turn to large language models for emotional support, yet little is known about how these models actually conduct a psychotherapy interaction. We introduce an ont…
Risk Governance for Generative AI Mental Health Support: A Multi-Turn Safety Architecture
Anabela C. Areias, Catarina Botelho, António Farinhas +7
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for emotional support despite lacking mechanisms to safely govern evolving mental health risk. Existing safety approaches primari…
MindGuard: Guardrail Classifiers for Multi-Turn Mental Health Support
António Farinhas, Nuno M. Guerreiro, José Pombal +6
Large language models are increasingly used for mental health support, yet their conversational coherence alone does not ensure clinical appropriateness. Existing general-purpose s…
MindEval: Benchmarking Language Models on Multi-turn Mental Health Support
José Pombal, Maya D'Eon, Nuno M. Guerreiro +3
Demand for mental health support through AI chatbots is surging, though current systems present several limitations, like sycophancy or overvalidation, and reinforcement of maladap…