arXiv:2608.22251v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Rising global demand for mental health support creates significant service delivery challenges, with asynchronous email counselling serving as a cruc...
By Philipp Steigerwald, Nico Bienlein, Jennifer Burghardt, Mara Stieler, Robert Lehmann, Jens Albrecht
arXiv:2510.25384v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are promising tools for synthetic data generation in mental health. However, privacy policies and restrictions forced...
By Doan Nam Long Vu, Rui Tan, Lena Moench, Svenja Jule Francke, Daniel Woiwod, Florian Thomas-Odenthal, Sanna Stroth, Tilo Kircher, Christiane Hermann, Udo Dannlowski, Hamidreza Jamalabadi, Simone Balloccu, Shaoxiong Ji
arXiv:2606. 23884v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: General-purpose large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for mental health-related conversations, yet safety safeguards remain inadequate and inconsistent across clinical conditions.
By Annika Marie Schoene, Cansu Canca, Gautham Vijay Kumar, Anson Antony
arXiv:2602. 05088v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Millions of people now use generative AI chatbots for psychological support.
By Kate H. Bentley, Luca Belli, Adam M. Chekroud, Emily J. Ward, Emily R. Dworkin, Emily Van Ark, Kelly M. Johnston, Will Alexander, Millard Brown, Matt Hawrilenko
arXiv:2605.30273v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) show promise in generating supportive responses for mental health queries, but improving their usefulness, empat...
By Jiwon Kim, Maya Ajit, Sherry Gong, Soorya Ram Shimgekar, Dong Whi Yoo, Eshwar Chandrasekharan, Koustuv Saha
HealthBench-Psych is a mental‑health subset of the OpenAI HealthBench benchmark, created by filtering 5,000 physician‑rubric conversations for mental‑health relevance using an LLM‑applied rubric and validating the selection through two rounds of blinded clinician review. The resulting 610 conversations (12.2 % of the corpus) are released along with a pipeline, model responses, grades, and analysis code. Evaluation of 20 frontier and open models by a cross‑vendor panel of three LLM judges shows a statistically tied frontier cluster, measurable refusal behavior in two models, and near‑identical rankings across judges (τ ≥ 0.92).
By Matthew Flathers, Phuong Anh Nguyen, Jill Noorily, Julian Herpertz, Meiting Chen, Jasreen Multani, Samuel Powell, Mason Granof, Mark Kalinch, John Torous
arXiv:2609.15855v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: % !TEX root = ../main.tex People increasingly use large language models (LLMs) for mental health support, yet their safety in evolving, high-risk con...
By Laura M. Vowels, Matthew J. Vowels, Shivali Sharma, Apoorv Jha, Rehnuma Choudhury, Wasseem El Sarraj, Rachel Francois-Walcott, Aruba Hussain, Sarah Ingram, Angela Loulopoulou, Adva Segal, Elena Volkova
arXiv:2509.04183v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: The growing demand for scalable psychological counseling highlights the need for high-quality, privacy-compliant data, yet such data remains...
By Aishik Mandal, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Iryna Gurevych
arXiv:2607. 08257v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong performance on isolated psychiatric tasks, including dialogue, diagnosis, and treatment planning, yet existing benchmarks rarely simulate complete psychiatric clinical encounters.
By Yuming Yang, Xiao Sun, Yuanwei Zou, Zhengxiao Wu, Yun Chen, Jiang Zhong, Haoyang Zeng, Jingwang Huang, Kaiwen Wei
arXiv:2606. 04867v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI companion platforms such as Replika and Character.
By Yanjing Ren, Reza Ebrahimi, TengTeng Ma
The paper surveys 61 studies on mental‑health AI and identifies a misalignment in how trust is evaluated across disciplines. It proposes a three‑layer framework—human‑oriented, interaction‑oriented, and AI‑oriented trust—and maps stakeholder perspectives onto these layers. The authors argue that future research should focus on calibrating human trust to actual interaction and AI trustworthiness rather than merely maximizing perceived trust.
By Xin Sun, Yue Su, Yifan Mo, Qingyu Meng, Yuxuan Li, Min Chen, Mengyuan Zhang, Saku Sugawara, Charlotte Gerritsen, Sander L. Koole, Koen Hindriks, Jiahuan Pei
arXiv:2607. 24754v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to provide mental health support, requiring reliable evaluation of safety, empathy, and therapeutic appropriateness.
By Asher Sprigler, Yixue Zhao, Yi Ding