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View article: Outcomes in Mental Health Counseling From Conversational Content With Transformer-Based Machine Learning
Outcomes in Mental Health Counseling From Conversational Content With Transformer-Based Machine Learning Open
Importance Use of asynchronous text-based counseling is rapidly growing as an easy-to-access approach to behavioral health care. Similar to in-person treatment, it is challenging to reliably assess as measures of process and content do not…
View article: Improving the quality of counseling and clinical supervision in opioid treatment programs: how can technology help?
Improving the quality of counseling and clinical supervision in opioid treatment programs: how can technology help? Open
Background The opioid epidemic has resulted in expanded substance use treatment services and strained the clinical workforce serving people with opioid use disorder. Focusing on evidence-based counseling practices like motivational intervi…
View article: Machine learning and natural language processing in psychotherapy research: Alliance as example use case.
Machine learning and natural language processing in psychotherapy research: Alliance as example use case. Open
Artificial intelligence generally and machine learning specifically have become deeply woven into the lives and technologies of modern life. Machine learning is dramatically changing scientific research and industry and may also hold promi…
View article: In pursuit of truth: A critical examination of meta-analyses of cognitive behavior therapy
In pursuit of truth: A critical examination of meta-analyses of cognitive behavior therapy Open
Objective: Three recent meta-analyses have made the claim, albeit with some caveats, that cognitive-behavioral treatments (CBT) are superior to other psychotherapies, in general or for specific disorders (e.g., social phobia). Method: The …
View article: Design feasibility of an automated, machine-learning based feedback system for motivational interviewing.
Design feasibility of an automated, machine-learning based feedback system for motivational interviewing. Open
Direct observation of psychotherapy and providing performance-based feedback is the gold-standard approach for training psychotherapists. At present, this requires experts and training human coding teams, which is slow, expensive, and labo…
View article: A multivariate meta-analysis of motivational interviewing process and outcome.
A multivariate meta-analysis of motivational interviewing process and outcome. Open
Motivational interviewing (MI) theory proposes a process whereby a set of therapist behaviors has direct effects on client outcomes and indirect effects through in-session processes (e.g., client change talk). Despite clear empirical suppo…
View article: Corrin Syntheses. Part VI
Corrin Syntheses. Part VI Open
As already extensively discussed in Part I of this series, the ‘climax’ of the studies at the ETH on the synthesis of corrins was reached with the conception and experimental realization of the corrin synthesis via a final ring closure bet…
View article: C-32Verbal Fluency Performance in Depression: An Examination of Clustering and Switching Using Two Coding Styles
C-32Verbal Fluency Performance in Depression: An Examination of Clustering and Switching Using Two Coding Styles Open
Objective: This project was designed to explore the efficacy of two methods of verbal fluency coding procedures in a sample of depressed and non-depressed college students.Troyer et al.'s (1997) coding process examines verbal fluency data …