3 papers
cs.CY2026
The Empirically Grounded Adaptive Virtual Patient for Psychotherapy Training: Disclosure That Responds to Therapist Micro-Skills
Angela Chen, Siwei Jin, Catherine Bao +4
Simulated patients offer a scalable way to train psychotherapy micro-skills such as empathic responding and exploratory probing, but current systems either follow fixed scripts or…
cs.CY2026
Empirical Modeling of Therapist-Client Dynamics in Psychotherapy Using LLM-Based Assessments
Angela Chen, Siwei Jin, Canwen Wang +4
Psychotherapy is a primary treatment for many mental health conditions, yet the interplay among therapist behaviors, client responses, and the therapeutic relationship is difficult…
cs.CY2026
Simulating Couple Conflict: Designing A Multi-Agent System for Therapy Training and Practice
Canwen Wang, Angela Chen, Catherine Bao +5
Couples therapy requires managing complex, evolving emotional dynamics between partners, but traditional training methods for therapists, like role-play, lack realism, consistency,…