psychological-counseling

Researchers from Lanzhou University propose a CBT-grounded framework for LLM-based psychological counseling that addresses the 'counselor-following' phenomenon in existing benchmarks, introducing CARS (a resistant client simulator), STREAMS (a dual-module strategic reasoning framework), and EWTS-MI (an entropy-weighted evaluation metric) to better handle real-world resistant counseling interactions.

Share a prompt for using AI to role-play as a psychological counselor, helping users explore themselves through daily deep questioning over 30 days.

This paper introduces Psy-Chronicle, a structured framework for synthesizing long-horizon campus psychological counseling dialogues, and releases CPCD, a Chinese dataset of 90,000 dialogues across multiple sessions, along with a benchmark for evaluating models on long-horizon counseling capabilities.