Multi-Session Client-Centered Treatment Outcome Evaluation in Psychotherapy
<|reference_start|>Multi-Session Client-Centered Treatment Outcome Evaluation in Psychotherapy: In psychotherapy, therapeutic outcome assessment, or treatment outcome evaluation, is essential for enhancing mental health care by systematically evaluating therapeutic processes and outcomes. Existing large language model approaches often focus on therapist-centered, single-session evaluations, neglecting the client's subjective experience and longitudinal progress across multiple sessions. To address these limitations, we propose IPAEval, a client-Informed Psychological Assessment-based Evaluation framework that automates treatment outcome evaluations from the client's perspective using clinical interviews. IPAEval integrates cross-session client-contextual assessment and session-focused client-dynamics assessment to provide a comprehensive understanding of therapeutic progress. Experiments on our newly developed TheraPhase dataset demonstrate that IPAEval effectively tracks symptom severity and treatment outcomes over multiple sessions, outperforming previous single-session models and validating the benefits of items-aware reasoning mechanisms.<|reference_end|>
@article{na2024multi-session,
    title={Multi-Session Client-Centered Treatment Outcome Evaluation in
  Psychotherapy},
    author={Hongbin Na, Tao Shen, Shumao Yu, Ling Chen},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.05824},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2410.05824},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}