AIMC Topic: Psychotherapy

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Investigating psychotherapists' attitudes towards artificial intelligence in psychotherapy.

BMC psychology
BACKGROUND: The increasing prevalence of mental health disorders, compounded by a global shortage of psychotherapists, highlights the need for innovative solutions such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning (ML) applications. These tech...

Using Machine Learning to Match Clients and Therapy Providers: Evaluating Clinical Quality and Cost of Care.

Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
OBJECTIVES: Matching clients in need of mental healthcare with providers who will deliver high quality treatment presents a substantial challenge. Machine learning models hold potential for predicting the best pairings from a multitude of data points...

A Comparison of Responses from Human Therapists and Large Language Model-Based Chatbots to Assess Therapeutic Communication: Mixed Methods Study.

JMIR mental health
BACKGROUND: Consumers are increasingly using large language model-based chatbots to seek mental health advice or intervention due to ease of access and limited availability of mental health professionals. However, their suitability and safety for men...

Using machine learning methods to predict the outcome of psychological therapies for post-traumatic stress disorder: A systematic review.

Journal of anxiety disorders
BACKGROUND: A number of treatments are available for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), however, there is currently a lack of data-driven treatment selection and adaptation methods for this condition. Machine learning (ML) could potentially help ...

The use of artificial intelligence in psychotherapy: development of intelligent therapeutic systems.

BMC psychology
BACKGROUND: The increasing demand for psychotherapy and limited access to specialists underscore the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in mental health care. This study evaluates the effectiveness of the AI-powered Friend chatbot in providing...

Building Trust with AI: How Essential is Validating AI Models in the Therapeutic Triad of Therapist, Patient, and Artificial Third? Comment on What is the Current and Future Status of Digital Mental Health Interventions?

The Spanish journal of psychology
Since the publication of "What is the Current and Future Status of Digital Mental Health Interventions?" the exponential growth and widespread adoption of ChatGPT have underscored the importance of reassessing its utility in digital mental health int...

Does the Digital Therapeutic Alliance Exist? Integrative Review.

JMIR mental health
BACKGROUND: Mental health disorders significantly impact global populations, prompting the rise of digital mental health interventions, such as artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots, to address gaps in access to care. This review explores the...

Development of an artificial intelligence-based measure of therapists' skills: A multimodal proof of concept.

Psychotherapy (Chicago, Ill.)
The facilitative interpersonal skills (FIS) task is a performance-based task designed to assess clinicians' capacity for facilitating a collaborative relationship. Performance on FIS is a robust clinician-level predictor of treatment outcomes. Howeve...

Predicting working alliance in psychotherapy: A multi-modal machine learning approach.

Psychotherapy research : journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research
OBJECTIVE: Session-by-session tracking of the working alliance enables clinicians to detect alliance deterioration and intervene accordingly, which has shown to improve treatment outcome, and reduce dropout. Despite this, regular use of alliance self...

Identification of cultural conversations in therapy using natural language processing models.

Psychotherapy (Chicago, Ill.)
Researchers have historically focused on understanding therapist multicultural competency and orientation through client self-report measures and behavioral coding. While client perceptions of therapist cultural competency and multicultural orientati...