11 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…
CandorMD: An AI-Assisted Audio Simulation and Feedback System for Training Clinicians for Medical Error Disclosure
Inna Wanyin Lin, Sahand Sabour, Hong Sng +4
Clinicians are expected to disclose harmful medical errors to patients and families in line with ethical, regulatory, and patient care standards, yet these conversations remain cha…
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…
Human Decision-making is Susceptible to AI-driven Manipulation
Sahand Sabour, June M. Liu, Siyang Liu +13
AI systems are increasingly intertwined with daily life, assisting users with various tasks and guiding decision-making. This integration introduces risks of AI-driven manipulation…
Reframe Your Life Story: Interactive Narrative Therapist and Innovative Moment Assessment with Large Language Models
Yi Feng, Jiaqi Wang, Wenxuan Zhang +6
Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) has opened new possibilities for mental health support, yet current approaches lack realism in simulating specialized psychotherapy…
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…