13 papers
Interactive Agents: Simulating Counselor-Client Psychological Counseling via Role-Playing LLM-to-LLM Interactions
Huachuan Qiu, Zhenzhong Lan
Creating effective dialogue systems for mental health support requires high-quality multi-turn counseling dialogue data, yet collecting real counselor-client conversations presents…
Multi-dimensional Assessment and Explainable Feedback for Counselor Responses to Client Resistance in Text-based Counseling with LLMs
Anqi Li, Ruihan Wang, Zhaoming Chen +5
Effectively addressing client resistance is a sophisticated clinical skill in psychological counseling, yet practitioners often lack timely and scalable supervisory feedback to ref…
CARE: An Explainable Computational Framework for Assessing Client-Perceived Therapeutic Alliance Using Large Language Models
Anqi Li, Chenxiao Wang, Yu Lu +3
Client perceptions of the therapeutic alliance are critical for counseling effectiveness. Accurately capturing these perceptions remains challenging, as traditional post-session qu…
A2Eval: Agentic and Automated Evaluation for Embodied Brain
Shuai Zhang, Jiayu Hu, Zijie Chen +9
Current embodied VLM evaluation relies on static, expert-defined, manually annotated benchmarks that exhibit severe redundancy and coverage imbalance. This labor intensive paradigm…
RECAP: Resistance Capture in Text-based Mental Health Counseling with Large Language Models
Anqi Li, Yuqian Chen, Yu Lu +3
Recognizing and navigating client resistance is critical for effective mental health counseling, yet detecting such behaviors is particularly challenging in text-based interactions…
PsyCLIENT: Client Simulation via Conversational Trajectory Modeling for Trainee Practice and Model Evaluation in Mental Health Counseling
Huachuan Qiu, Zhaoming Chen, Yuqian Chen +3
LLM-based client simulation has emerged as a promising tool for training novice counselors and evaluating automated counseling systems. However, existing client simulation approach…