2 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.HC2023
What Makes Digital Support Effective? How Therapeutic Skills Affect Clinical Well-Being
Anna Fang, Wenjie Yang, Raj Sanjay Shah +4
Online mental health support communities have grown in recent years for providing accessible mental and emotional health support through volunteer counselors. Despite millions of p…