2 papers
cs.CL2026
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…
cs.AI2026
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…