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New LLM frameworks generate synthetic counseling dialogues from structured data

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Researchers have developed new frameworks, Graph2Counsel and SQPsych, to generate synthetic counseling dialogues using large language models (LLMs). These methods address the scarcity of real-world mental health data by creating realistic conversations grounded in structured client profiles and psychological graphs. Evaluations by experts indicate that LLMs fine-tuned on this synthetic data demonstrate improved performance in therapist role-playing and conversational quality compared to existing models. AI

IMPACT These frameworks could accelerate the development of AI-powered mental health tools by providing realistic, privacy-preserving training data.

RANK_REASON Two research papers introducing novel frameworks for synthetic data generation in mental health counseling.

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New LLM frameworks generate synthetic counseling dialogues from structured data

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Aishik Mandal, Hiba Arnaout, Clarissa W. Ong, Juliet Bockhorst, Kate Sheehan, Rachael Moldow, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Iryna Gurevych ·

    Graph2Counsel: Clinically Grounded Synthetic Counseling Dialogue Generation from Client Psychological Graphs

    arXiv:2604.20382v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Rising demand for mental health support has increased interest in using Large Language Models (LLMs) for counseling, but adapting them to this safety-critical domain is hindered by limited real-world data due to privacy constrai…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Doan Nam Long Vu, Rui Tan, Lena Moench, Svenja Jule Francke, Daniel Woiwod, Florian Thomas-Odenthal, Sanna Stroth, Tilo Kircher, Christiane Hermann, Udo Dannlowski, Hamidreza Jamalabadi, Simone Balloccu, Shaoxiong Ji ·

    Roleplaying with Structure: Synthetic Therapist-Client Conversation Generation from Questionnaires

    arXiv:2510.25384v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are promising tools for synthetic data generation in mental health. However, privacy policies and restrictions forced previous work to rely mainly on generic information. We present a comprehensive c…

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