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New AI framework simulates mental health counseling clients

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Researchers have developed PsyCLIENT, a framework designed to simulate clients for mental health counseling training and evaluation. This system conditions simulated client responses on detailed profiles, dialogue histories, and specific conversational trajectories that guide target behaviors and content. To support this, a dataset named PsyCLIENT-CP was created, featuring 120 Chinese client profiles across 60 counseling topics. Evaluations involving professional counselors indicated that PsyCLIENT generated more authentic and training-useful dialogues compared to existing methods, with its generated dialogues also being more frequently mistaken for human interactions. AI

IMPACT This framework could significantly enhance the scalability and diversity of training for mental health professionals and improve the evaluation of AI counseling systems.

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Huachuan Qiu, Zhaoming Chen, Yuqian Chen, Yuan Xie, Yu Lu, Zhenzhong Lan ·

    PsyCLIENT: Client Simulation via Conversational Trajectory Modeling for Trainee Practice and Model Evaluation in Mental Health Counseling

    arXiv:2601.07312v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM-based client simulation provides a scalable approach to novice counselor training, counseling-dialogue synthesis, and interactive evaluation of automated counseling systems. However, existing approaches are limited by insuff…

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