arXiv AI
Jul 10

MentalHospital: A Virtual Environment for Evaluating Psychiatric Clinical Encounters

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 AI
Oct 7

PsyCIDRA: A Dual-Agent Framework for Psychiatric Interviewing and Diagnostic Reasoning

PsyCIDRA is a dual‑agent framework that couples a free‑form psychiatric interviewer with a diagnostic reasoning agent to support expert review. The interviewer agent uses tools to keep working notes, load expert skills, and pull ICD‑11 references, while the diagnostic agent receives the interview transcript and generates hypotheses with supporting, conflicting, and missing evidence, withholding a final hypothesis if insufficient support exists. In simulations and a blinded human study, PsyCIDRA achieved higher diagnostic agreement and rank‑1 accuracy than direct prompting, indicating its promise for assisting psychiatric assessment through interactive dialogue.

By Milad Mohammadi, Fatemeh Akrami Shamsabadi, Zahra Mohseni, Amirhossein Safdarian, Malekfarhad Malek, Hadi Moradi, Hesham Faili
arXiv AI
Jul 16

Ask Before You Diagnose: Safe-Psych, a Sequential Evaluation Benchmark for LLMs in Psychiatry

arXiv:2607. 13036v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for decision support in healthcare, but clinical evidence is often incomplete or evolving.

By Oriana Presacan, Andreea Grama, Larisa Irimin\u{a}, Alireza Nik, Jaya Ojha, Vajira Thambawita, Ciprian I. B\u{a}cil\u{a}, Bogdan Ionescu, Michael A. Riegler
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 16

MindEval2: Clinically Grounded Patients and Rubrics for Evaluating Language Models in Mental Health Support

MindEval2 is a new evaluation framework for AI chatbots in mental health support, comprising Mental Health Quality Rubrics (MHQR) and the MindSim patient simulation harness. MHQR, developed with PhD-level psychologists, provides explicit, actionable criteria for assessing response quality, while MindSim offers realistic, longitudinal patient interactions with a memory component. The study evaluated 18 models, finding that although surface-level quality has improved, guidance calibration remains the main failure across all models.

By John Mendon\c{c}a, Daniel Tschernutter, Jos\'e Pombal, Areti Vassilopoulos, Catarina Botelho, Ignacio Sarasua, Maya D'Eon, Nuno Guerreiro, Ricardo Rei