AIMC Topic: Psychotherapy

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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...

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...

Potential promises and perils of artificial intelligence in psychotherapy -The AI Psychotherapist (APT).

Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
OBJECTIVE: Since the release of ChatGPT, popular demand has driven the use of social chatbots as pseudo-AI psychotherapists. With time, it is inevitable that these technologies will be deployed in some form as dedicated psychotherapy interventions. H...

Considering the Role of Human Empathy in AI-Driven Therapy.

JMIR mental health
Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) language models have elevated the vision of using conversational AI support for mental health, with a growing body of literature indicating varying degrees of efficacy. In this paper, we ask when, ...

The Artificial Third: A Broad View of the Effects of Introducing Generative Artificial Intelligence on Psychotherapy.

JMIR mental health
This paper explores a significant shift in the field of mental health in general and psychotherapy in particular following generative artificial intelligence's new capabilities in processing and generating humanlike language. Following Freud, this li...

Study of a PST-trained voice-enabled artificial intelligence counselor for adults with emotional distress (SPEAC-2): Design and methods.

Contemporary clinical trials
BACKGROUND: Novel and scalable psychotherapies are urgently needed to address the depression and anxiety epidemic. Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), a voice-based virtual coach named Lumen was developed to deliver problem solving treatment (PS...

Using machine learning to increase access to and engagement with trauma-focused interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder.

The British journal of clinical psychology
BACKGROUND: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) poses a global public health challenge. Evidence-based psychotherapies (EBPs) for PTSD reduce symptoms and improve functioning (Forbes et al., Guilford Press, 2020, 3). However, a number of barriers t...

A machine learning personalized treatment rule to optimize assignment to psychotherapies for grief among veterans.

Journal of affective disorders
BACKGROUND: Complex grief patterns are associated with significant suffering, functional impairments, health and mental health problems, and increased healthcare use. This burden may be even more pronounced among veterans. Behavioral Activation and T...

Predicting post-treatment symptom severity for adults receiving psychological therapy in routine care for generalised anxiety disorder: a machine learning approach.

Psychiatry research
Approximately half of generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) patients do not recover from first-line treatments, and no validated prediction models exist to inform individuals or clinicians of potential treatment benefits. This study aimed to develop and...