5 papers
When Clients Stop Following: A Cognitive Conceptualization Diagram-driven Framework for Strategic Counseling
Yihao Qin, Junyi Zhao, Changsheng Ma +4
Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise in psychological counseling, yet existing benchmarks rely heavily on highly cooperative simulated clients. We observe a critical counselor…
DMT-CBT: Longitudinal Therapeutic State Modeling for CBT Counseling
Chang Liu, Shuyi Zhang, Changsheng Ma +3
Large language models (LLMs) have shown growing potential for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) counseling. However, most existing approaches still formulate counseling as a local…
First, Do No Harm: AI Supervisor Scaffolds Novice Growth in Counselor Education
Chen Xu, Zhenyu Lyu, Tian Lan +12
The most dangerous mistakes a novice counselor makes are not the obvious ones: they are utterances that sound caring while quietly violating professional ethics and leaving vulnera…
CCD-CBT: Multi-Agent Therapeutic Interaction for CBT Guided by Cognitive Conceptualization Diagram
Chang Liu, Changsheng Ma, Yongfeng Tao +2
Large language models show potential for scalable mental-health support by simulating Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) counselors. However, existing methods often rely on static…
The Art of Socratic Inquiry: A Framework for Proactive Template-Guided Therapeutic Conversation Generation
Mingwen Zhang, Minqiang Yang, Changsheng Ma +5
Proactive questioning, where therapists deliberately initiate structured, cognition-guiding inquiries, is a cornerstone of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Yet, current psycholo…