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  1. Right Words, Wrong Moment: A Clinician-Grounded Analysis of Distress in 19,930 Conversations between Young People and ChatGPT

    Sep 28, 2026Marx Wang, Ella Zhang, Cameron Tan +11Emotional Support ConversationHuman-AI Interaction

    University of Washington, United States · University of Oxford, United Kingdom · Stanford University, United States +2

  2. An AI-Powered Culturally Aware Chatbot for Stress Detection and Wellness Support among Pakistani University Students Using NLP and Machine Learning

    Sep 10, 2026Muhammad Fahad Bashir, Muhammad AfzalMental HealthMental Health Conversational Agents

    Department of Computer Science & Information Technology, Ghazi University Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan

  3. 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

  4. Training Therapeutic Judges and Multi-Agent Systems for Human-Aligned Mental Health Support

    Jun 29, 2026Mizanur Rahman, Abeer Badawi, Elahe Rahimi +4Emotional Support ConversationMulti-Agent LLM Systems

    1York University, Ontario, Canada · 2Vector Institute, Ontario, Canada · 3Connected Minds, Ontario, Canada +1

  5. Auditing Framing-Sensitive Behavioral Instability in Large Language Models for Mental Health Interactions

    Jun 25, 2026Abla Bedoui, Ashley L. Greene, Mohammed CherkaouiPrompt SensitivityLLM Auditing

    School of computer science, digital engineering and AI, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, USA · Department of Psychology, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, USA

  6. SAGE: Stochastic Prompt Optimization via Agent-Guided Exploration

    Jun 17, 2026Ziyi Zhu, Luka Smyth, Saki Shinoda +1Large Language Model-Guided OptimizationMental Health Conversational Agents

    1Slingshot AI · Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

  7. Cloze: An Open Research Platform for Studying Human-AI Conversations in Mental Health Contexts

    Jun 13, 2026Matthew Flathers, Francesco Cipriani, John TorousMental HealthHuman-AI Interaction

    Division of Digital Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA · Division of Language Sciences and Linguistics, University College London, London

  8. Lost in Delusion: Examining LLM Safety Under User Delusions and Distress

    May 31, 2026Andrew Aquilina, Chetna Nihalani, Vasudha Varadarajan +3Mental HealthLLM Safety Alignment

    University of Pittsburgh · Carnegie Mellon University · Fordham University

  9. AI Content Moderation in Therapy Conversations

    May 25, 2026Jiwon Kim, Claire Wang, Taeung Yoon +2LLM AuditingLLM Guardrails

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, U.S.

  10. MindGap: A Conversational AI Framework for Upstream Neuroplastic Intervention in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

    May 14, 2026Eranga Bandara, Ross Gore, Asanga Gunaratna +16Mental HealthMental Health Conversational Agents

    Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA · AI Motion Labs, Melbourne, Australia · Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA +5

  11. VERA-MH: Validation of Ethical and Responsible AI in Mental Health

    May 13, 2026Luca Belli, Kate H. Bentley, Josh Gieringer +6HealthcareMental Health

    Spring Health · Yale University

  12. Can AI Help You Get Over Your Breakup? One Session with a Belief-Reframing Chatbot Shows Sustained Distress Reduction

    May 5, 2026Thomas Menzel, Michel Schimpf, Thomas BohnéEmotional Support ConversationMental Health

    Technical University of Munich, Germany · University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

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

    Apr 22, 2026Aishik Mandal, Hiba Arnaout, Clarissa W. Ong +5Mental Health CounselingMental Health

    UKP Lab, Department of Computer Science and Hessian Center for AI (hessian.AI), Technische Universität Darmstadt · Zuse School · National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE +4

  14. StoryMI: Steerable Multi-Agent Therapeutic Dialogue Generation

    Apr 18, 2026Qingyu Meng, Min Chen, Dingming Liu +5Mental HealthMulti-Agent LLM Systems

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam · NII, Tokyo Institute of Technology

  15. Young people's perceptions and recommendations for conversational generative artificial intelligence in youth mental health

    Apr 15, 2026Adam Poulsen, Ian B. Hickie, Carla Gorban +7Mental Health Conversational AgentsConversational Agents

    Brain and Mind Centre, The University of Sydney. Sydney, Australia. · Uncapt. Sydney, Australia.

  16. AI Psychosis: Does Conversational AI Amplify Delusion-Related Language?

    Mar 20, 2026Soorya Ram Shimgekar, Vipin Gunda, Jiwon Kim +3Mental Health Conversational AgentsAI Safety

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  17. YAQIN: Culturally Sensitive, Agentic AI for Mental Healthcare Support Among Muslim Women in the UK

    Mar 8, 2026Yasmin Zaraket, Céline MougenotMental Health Conversational AgentsMental Health

    Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London

  18. 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

  19. Tell Me: An LLM-powered Mental Well-being Assistant with RAG, Synthetic Dialogue Generation, and Agentic Planning

    Nov 18, 2025Trishala Jayesh AhalparaMental Health CounselingMental Health

    Fujitsu Research of America Santa Clara, USA

  20. Generative AI Purpose-built for Social and Mental Health: A Real-World Pilot

    Nov 12, 2025Thomas D. Hull, Lizhe Zhang, Caitlin A. Stamatis +2HealthcareMental Health

    Slingshot AI · CREATIV Lab, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington · Department of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine +1

  21. 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