Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

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MACBT: A Multi-Agent Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Decision Support System with Longitudinal Memory
Sep 25, 2026De Jiang, Shuo Zhang, Weiwei Liao +4Clinical Decision Support Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Tsinghua University, China · Hangzhou Municipal Health Commission, China · Department of Child Health Care, Hangzhou Women’s Hospital (Hangzhou Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital), China +1
Steering the Compass: Aligning Dynamic Psychological Counseling Conversations with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Strategies
Sep 17, 2026Zimu Wang, Yiwen Jiang, Xiangyu Zhao +10Mental Health Counseling Synthetic Data Generation for Language Models
AIM for Health Lab, Monash University · University of Liverpool · Massachusetts Institute of Technology +2
DeepSAGE: Stage-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Structured CBT Counseling Dialogue
Aug 23, 2026Qi Zhang, Heajun An, Prakriti Dumaru +4LLM Agents RL for LLM Agents
Virginia Tech · International Computer Science Institute · University of California, Davis
ODRA: Synthesizing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Sessions with Structured Chain-Of-Thought and Dynamic Patient Resistance
Aug 5, 2026Javier Rodriguez-Juan, Hiba Arnaout, Jose Garcia-Rodriguez +2Mental Health Counseling Human Behavior Simulation
13DPLab, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Alicante · 2UKP Lab, Department of Computer Science and Hessian Center for AI (hessian.AI), Technische Universität Darmstadt
Cognivia: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Copilot for Evidence-Based Mental Healthcare
Jul 28, 2026Qi Chen, Siria Xiyueyao Luo, Jian Wang +3Mental Health Counseling Conversational Agents
Sichuan University Sichuan, China · Southwest Petroleum University Sichuan, China · University of Groningen Netherland +3
MyMentorLLM: A psychotherapy GenAI environment with multimodal voice/text patients, trainees and experts for deliberate practice
Jul 28, 2026Rodolfo Rizzi, Alessandro Grecucci, Massimo StellaMental Health Counseling Multi-Agent LLM Systems
CogNosco Lab, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Italy. · Department of Education, Psychology and Communication Sciences, University of Bari, Italy.
Where do LLMs Fall Short in CBT-Guided Affective Reasoning?
Jul 3, 2026Vaishnavi Sinha, Pooja Guttal, Pranay Deep Reddy Katike +5Mental Health Clinical Language Model Evaluation
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, UMBC · Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Irvine · Department of Psychology, UMBC +1
When Clients Stop Following: A Cognitive Conceptualization Diagram-driven Framework for Strategic Counseling
Jun 3, 2026Yihao Qin, Junyi Zhao, Changsheng Ma +4Mental Health Counseling Cognitive Modeling
School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University
DMT-CBT: Longitudinal Therapeutic State Modeling for CBT Counseling
Jun 2, 2026Chang Liu, Shuyi Zhang, Changsheng Ma +3Mental Health Counseling Multimodal Large Language Models
School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University
CBT-Audio: Evaluating Audio Language Models for Patient-Side Distress Intensity Estimation in CBT Session Recordings
May 17, 2026Qixuan Hu, Shuchang Ye, Xumou Zhang +8Audio-Language Model Evaluation Mental Health Counseling
School of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, University of Sydney, Australia · School of Psychology, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney, Australia · CHeBA (Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing), School of Clinical Medicine, Discipline of Psychiatry & Mental Health, The University of New South Wales, Australia +2
AI Safety Training Can be Clinically Harmful
Apr 25, 2026Suhas BN, Andrew M. Sherrill, Rosa I. Arriaga +2Mental Health Counseling LLM Alignment
College of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University, USA · Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, USA · School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech, USA +1
CCD-CBT: Multi-Agent Therapeutic Interaction for CBT Guided by Cognitive Conceptualization Diagram
Apr 8, 2026Chang Liu, Changsheng Ma, Yongfeng Tao +2Conversational Agents Large Language Model-Based Role-Play Simulation
School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University
PSY-STEP: Structuring Therapeutic Targets and Action Sequences for Proactive Counseling Dialogue Systems
Apr 6, 2026Jihyun Lee, Yejin Min, Yejin Jeon +3Conversational Agents Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence, POSTECH · MILA · McGill University +1
TherapyGym: Evaluating and Aligning Clinical Fidelity and Safety in Therapy Chatbots
Feb 23, 2026Fangrui Huang, Souhad Chbeir, Arpandeep Khatua +8Clinical Language Model Evaluation Conversational Agents
Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA · Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA · The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong +2
MAGneT: Coordinated Multi-Agent Generation of Synthetic Multi-Turn Mental Health Counseling Sessions
Sep 4, 2025Aishik Mandal, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Iryna GurevychMental Health Counseling Mental Health
Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP Lab), Department of Computer Science and Hessian Center for AI (hessian.AI), Technische Universität Darmstadt · National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE, Germany · Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India +1
Therapy as an NLP Task: Comparing LLMs and Human Peers Behaviors in CBT Sessions
Sep 3, 2024Zainab Iftikhar, Sean Ransom, Amy Xiao +2Mental Health Counseling Conversational Agents
Brown University, USA · Department of Psychiatry, Louisiana State University Health Sciences, USA · Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Brown University, USA

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MACBT: A Multi-Agent Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Decision Support System with Longitudinal Memory

De Jiang, Shuo Zhang, Weiwei Liao, Jianying Zhang+3

Tsinghua University, China · Hangzhou Municipal Health Commission, China · Department of Child Health Care, Hangzhou Women’s Hospital (Hangzhou Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital), China+1

Clinical Decision Support Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Multi-Agent LLM Systems Long-Term Conversational Memory

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Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based first-line treatment for depression, yet its scale is constrained by the time clinicians spend on pre-session preparation, post-session documentation, and longitudinal cognitive-pathology tracking. We present a clinician-facing AI decision-support system that combines a multi-agent CBT framework (MACBT) with a CBT-specific longitudinal memory module (CD Memory). MACBT encodes the five-stage CBT workflow (assessment, Socratic questioning, cognitive restructuring, behavioral experiments, and treatment monitoring) into five collaborative agents. CD Memory tracks cognitive-distortion type, frequency, severity, and restructuring efficacy across sessions to generate pre-session pathology reports and intervention-priority recommendations. We construct a Chinese CBT dialogue corpus via dual-role large language model simulation and train a Qwen3-14B backbone with supervised fine-tuning and direct preference optimization. Evaluation with GPT-4 judges shows MACBT outperforms MeChat, SoulChat, PsyChat, and CPsyCounX in professionalism (2.62) and clinical authenticity (2.25). The full memory-augmented system further improves session quality by 12.6% and achieves a longitudinal mean of 2.29 on cross-session continuity, intervention progression, and personalization.