| Challenge: | mental health care is a demanding occupation, resulting in a severe gap in patient-centered care . a recent study shows that natural language processing can extract certain aspects of human-human communication. |
| Approach: | They propose to use data from psychotherapy sessions to help improve quality of care . they use feedback and cooperation annotations to assess quality of therapy sessions . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method aims to analyse psychotherapy data and assess its quality . it aims at identifying what qualifies for good feedback or cooperation in therapy sessions . |
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