most citedMindEval: Benchmarking Language Models on Multi-turn Mental Health Support

3 citations · 3 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.CL2026

MindEval2: Clinically Grounded Patients and Rubrics for Evaluating Language Models in Mental Health Support

John Mendonça, Daniel Tschernutter, José Pombal +6

With people increasingly turning to AI chatbots for mental health support, the need to evaluate these tools is becoming more pressing. Recent benchmarks attempt to mimic a realisti…

cs.CL2026

Move by Move: Measuring and Steering How LLMs Conduct Psychotherapy

Afonso Baldo, Hugo Pitorro, Areti Vassilopoulos +5

As the demand for mental health services outpaces clinical workforce capacity, users are increasingly turning to large language models (LLMs) for accessible and private support. Al…

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…

cs.AI2026

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…

cs.CL2025★ 3 cited

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…