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Users increasingly turn to large language models for emotional support, yet little is known about how these models actually conduct a psychotherapy interaction.
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Users increasingly turn to large language models for emotional support, yet little is known about how these models actually conduct a psychotherapy interaction. We introduce an ontology of ten therapeutic moves: compact, function-based categories grounded in the MULTI-60 inventory, validated through an annotation campaign with five licensed psychologists, and scaled with a judge-based approach that matches expert agreement. Applying it to real counseling transcripts and model-led sessions, we compare the move distributions between human clinicians and a panel of frontier models. Models over-us...
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Publisher: arxiv.org
ID: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21325v1 · Indexed 7 days ago