8 papers
PatientAct: Theory-Grounded Mental Health Client Simulation
Sahand Sabour, TszYam NG, Yaqian Chen +3
LLM-based simulated clients are increasingly used to train novice counselors, evaluate LLM therapists, and generate synthetic data. However, current simulators produce overly coope…
PsychePass: Calibrating LLM Therapeutic Competence via Trajectory-Anchored Tournaments
Zhuang Chen, Dazhen Wan, Zhangkai Zheng +4
While large language models show promise in mental healthcare, evaluating their therapeutic competence remains challenging due to the unstructured and longitudinal nature of counse…
Unveiling the Landscape of Clinical Depression Assessment: From Behavioral Signatures to Psychiatric Reasoning
Zhuang Chen, Guanqun Bi, Wen Zhang +5
Depression is a widespread mental disorder that affects millions worldwide. While automated depression assessment shows promise, most studies rely on limited or non-clinically vali…
SocialSim: Towards Socialized Simulation of Emotional Support Conversation
Zhuang Chen, Yaru Cao, Guanqun Bi +6
Emotional support conversation (ESC) helps reduce people's psychological stress and provide emotional value through interactive dialogues. Due to the high cost of crowdsourcing a l…
Ψ-Arena: Interactive Assessment and Optimization of LLM-based Psychological Counselors with Tripartite Feedback
Shijing Zhu, Zhuang Chen, Guanqun Bi +10
Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in providing scalable mental health support, while evaluating their counseling capability remains crucial to ensure both efficacy an…
MAGI: Multi-Agent Guided Interview for Psychiatric Assessment
Guanqun Bi, Zhuang Chen, Zhoufu Liu +9
Automating structured clinical interviews could revolutionize mental healthcare accessibility, yet existing large language models (LLMs) approaches fail to align with psychiatric d…