Steering the Compass: Aligning Dynamic Psychological Counseling Conversations with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Strategies
Recent advancements in large language models have revolutionized the field of psychological counseling, especially in the context of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). While the success of CBT relies heavily on dynamic decision-making informed by the client's real-time mental state, this aspect has often been overlooked in current research, limiting both flexibility and therapeutic outcomes. In this paper, we introduce StratCBT, a dataset specifically designed for psychological counseling conversations with CBT Strategies, consisting of 9,688 sessions and around 256K utterances, with each counselor's response aligned with one of eight distinct strategies. The creation of StratCBT involve...
| Authors | Zimu Wang, Yiwen Jiang, Xiangyu Zhao et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 17 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 17 September 2026 |
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