Papers with clinically grounded framework
Measuring What Matters!! Assessing Therapeutic Principles in Mental-Health Conversation (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Recent systems exhibit conversational competence but lack structured mechanisms to evaluate adherence to core therapeutic principles. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to evaluate therapist-like responses for clinically grounded appropriateness and effectiveness using an ordinal scale. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves an F-1 score of 63.34 versus the baseline Qwen3 score of 38.56 . |
MentalSeek-Dx: Towards Progressive Hypothetico-Deductive Reasoning for Real-world Psychiatric Diagnosis (2026.acl-long)
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Xiao Sun, null Ymyang, Xinyi Jiang, Yu Tian, Junnan Zhu, Jiang Zhong, Qin Lei, Jingwang Huang, Haoyang Zeng, Xinyu Zhou, Xin Xiao, Kaiwen Wei
| Challenge: | Mental health disorders represent a burgeoning global public health challenge . lack of ecological validity and fine-grained diagnostic supervision limits their utility . |
| Approach: | They propose a medical-specialized LLM trained to internalize clinical reasoning process through supervised trajectory construction and curriculum-based reinforcement learning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art with only 14B parameters, establishing a clinically grounded framework for reliable psychiatric diagnosis. |