no code implementations • 19 Feb 2024 • Inna Wanyin Lin, ASHISH SHARMA, Christopher Michael Rytting, Adam S. Miner, Jina Suh, Tim Althoff
With IMBUE's additional just-in-time feedback, participants demonstrate 17% improvement in skill mastery, along with greater enhancements in self-efficacy (27% more) and reduction of negative emotions (16% more) compared to simulation-only.
1 code implementation • 1 Jan 2024 • Yu Ying Chiu, ASHISH SHARMA, Inna Wanyin Lin, Tim Althoff
Subsequently, we compare the behavior of LLM therapists against that of high- and low-quality human therapy, and study how their behavior can be modulated to better reflect behaviors observed in high-quality therapy.
no code implementations • 24 Oct 2023 • ASHISH SHARMA, Kevin Rushton, Inna Wanyin Lin, Theresa Nguyen, Tim Althoff
In an IRB-approved randomized field study on a large mental health website with 15, 531 participants, we design and evaluate a system that uses language models to support people through various steps of cognitive restructuring.
1 code implementation • 4 May 2023 • ASHISH SHARMA, Kevin Rushton, Inna Wanyin Lin, David Wadden, Khendra G. Lucas, Adam S. Miner, Theresa Nguyen, Tim Althoff
In this paper, we conduct a human-centered study of how language models may assist people in reframing negative thoughts.
no code implementations • 27 Oct 2022 • Inna Wanyin Lin, Lucille Njoo, Anjalie Field, ASHISH SHARMA, Katharina Reinecke, Tim Althoff, Yulia Tsvetkov
Mental health stigma prevents many individuals from receiving the appropriate care, and social psychology studies have shown that mental health tends to be overlooked in men.