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Can LLM-Simulated Practice and Feedback Upskill Human Counselors? A Randomized Study with 90+ Novice Counselors
Ryan Louie, Raj Sanjay Shah, Ifdita Hasan Orney +3
The growing demand for accessible mental health support requires training more counselors, yet existing approaches remain resource-intensive and difficult to scale. LLMs can realis…
Conversational Self-Play for Discovering and Understanding Psychotherapy Approaches
Onno P Kampman, Michael Xing, Charmaine Lim +4
This paper explores conversational self-play with LLMs as a scalable approach for analyzing and exploring psychotherapy approaches, evaluating how well AI-generated therapeutic dia…
SPHERE: An Evaluation Card for Human-AI Systems
Qianou Ma, Dora Zhao, Xinran Zhao +6
In the era of Large Language Models (LLMs), establishing effective evaluation methods and standards for diverse human-AI interaction systems is increasingly challenging. To encoura…
MentalImager: Exploring Generative Images for Assisting Support-Seekers' Self-Disclosure in Online Mental Health Communities
Han Zhang, Jiaqi Zhang, Yuxiang Zhou +5
Support-seekers' self-disclosure of their suffering experiences, thoughts, and feelings in the post can help them get needed peer support in online mental health communities (OMHCs…