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Can LLM-Simulated Practice and Feedback Upskill Human Counselors? A Randomized Study with 90+ Novice Counselors
Ryan Louie, Raj Sanjay Shah, Ifdita Hasan Orney +3
The growing demand for accessible mental health support requires training more counselors, yet existing approaches remain resource-intensive and difficult to scale. LLMs can realis…
What Makes Digital Support Effective? How Therapeutic Skills Affect Clinical Well-Being
Anna Fang, Wenjie Yang, Raj Sanjay Shah +4
Online mental health support communities have grown in recent years for providing accessible mental and emotional health support through volunteer counselors. Despite millions of p…
Helping the Helper: Supporting Peer Counselors via AI-Empowered Practice and Feedback
Shang-Ling Hsu, Raj Sanjay Shah, Prathik Senthil +4
Millions of users come to online peer counseling platforms to seek support. However, studies show that online peer support groups are not always as effective as expected, largely d…
Modeling Motivational Interviewing Strategies On An Online Peer-to-Peer Counseling Platform
Raj Sanjay Shah, Faye Holt, Shirley Anugrah Hayati +4
Millions of people participate in online peer-to-peer support sessions, yet there has been little prior research on systematic psychology-based evaluations of fine-grained peer-cou…