Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

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Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people recognize links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, then use techniques such as reframing thoughts and changing behavior to address distress. AI research explores language models that can support or simulate CBT through structured session stages, cognitive-conceptualization diagrams, longitudinal memory, and multi-agent or reinforcement-learning methods. Datasets and evaluations assess CBT skill, clinical fidelity, safety, and responsiveness to patient distress or resistance, often using expert clinicians alongside automated and simulated-client ratings. A central tension is that following CBT protocols does not guarantee sound contextual judgment, rapport, or safety, and gains on simulated evaluations do not yet establish clinical effectiveness.

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

    Sep 25, 2026De Jiang, Shuo Zhang, Weiwei Liao +4Clinical Decision SupportCognitive 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

  2. Steering the Compass: Aligning Dynamic Psychological Counseling Conversations with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Strategies

    Sep 17, 2026Zimu Wang, Yiwen Jiang, Xiangyu Zhao +10Mental Health CounselingSynthetic Data Generation for Language Models

    AIM for Health Lab, Monash University · University of Liverpool · Massachusetts Institute of Technology +2

  3. DeepSAGE: Stage-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Structured CBT Counseling Dialogue

    Aug 23, 2026Qi Zhang, Heajun An, Prakriti Dumaru +4LLM AgentsRL for LLM Agents

    Virginia Tech · International Computer Science Institute · University of California, Davis

  4. 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 CounselingHuman 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

  5. Cognivia: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Copilot for Evidence-Based Mental Healthcare

    Jul 28, 2026Qi Chen, Siria Xiyueyao Luo, Jian Wang +3Mental Health CounselingMental Health Conversational Agents

    Sichuan University Sichuan, China · Southwest Petroleum University Sichuan, China · University of Groningen Netherland +3

  6. 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 CounselingMulti-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.

  7. Where do LLMs Fall Short in CBT-Guided Affective Reasoning?

    Jul 3, 2026Vaishnavi Sinha, Pooja Guttal, Pranay Deep Reddy Katike +5Mental HealthClinical 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

  8. When Clients Stop Following: A Cognitive Conceptualization Diagram-driven Framework for Strategic Counseling

    Jun 3, 2026Yihao Qin, Junyi Zhao, Changsheng Ma +4Mental Health CounselingCognitive Modeling

    School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University

  9. DMT-CBT: Longitudinal Therapeutic State Modeling for CBT Counseling

    Jun 2, 2026Chang Liu, Shuyi Zhang, Changsheng Ma +3Mental Health CounselingMultimodal Large Language Models

    School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University

  10. 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 EvaluationMental 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

  11. AI Safety Training Can be Clinically Harmful

    Apr 25, 2026Suhas BN, Andrew M. Sherrill, Rosa I. Arriaga +2Mental Health CounselingLLM 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

  12. CCD-CBT: Multi-Agent Therapeutic Interaction for CBT Guided by Cognitive Conceptualization Diagram

    Apr 8, 2026Chang Liu, Changsheng Ma, Yongfeng Tao +2Conversational AgentsLarge Language Model-Based Role-Play Simulation

    School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University

  13. PSY-STEP: Structuring Therapeutic Targets and Action Sequences for Proactive Counseling Dialogue Systems

    Apr 6, 2026Jihyun Lee, Yejin Min, Yejin Jeon +3Conversational AgentsCognitive Behavioral Therapy

    Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence, POSTECH · MILA · McGill University +1

  14. TherapyGym: Evaluating and Aligning Clinical Fidelity and Safety in Therapy Chatbots

    Feb 23, 2026Fangrui Huang, Souhad Chbeir, Arpandeep Khatua +8Mental Health Conversational AgentsClinical Language Model Evaluation

    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

  15. MAGneT: Coordinated Multi-Agent Generation of Synthetic Multi-Turn Mental Health Counseling Sessions

    Sep 4, 2025Aishik Mandal, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Iryna GurevychMental Health CounselingMental 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

  16. Therapy as an NLP Task: Comparing LLMs and Human Peers Behaviors in CBT Sessions

    Sep 3, 2024Zainab Iftikhar, Sean Ransom, Amy Xiao +2Mental Health CounselingMental Health Conversational Agents

    Brown University, USA · Department of Psychiatry, Louisiana State University Health Sciences, USA · Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Brown University, USA