When Clients Stop Following: A Cognitive Conceptualization Diagram-driven Framework for Strategic Counseling

Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise in psychological counseling, yet existing benchmarks rely heavily on highly cooperative simulated clients. We observe a critical counselor-following phenomenon: these clients often rapidly shift from resistance to compliance after only a few turns, creating an illusion of therapeutic progress and inflating scores under current evaluation protocols through superficial empathy.

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• llms
• reinforcement-learning
• benchmarks