TheraMind用双循环架构实现长期心理辅导的自适应对话。
TheraMind: A Strategic and Adaptive Agent for Longitudinal Psychological Counseling
- 分内会话与跨会话双循环,分别管理即时对话与长期治疗策略。
- 在多轮评估中表现优于其他方法,尤其在连贯性、灵活性和共情度上提升显著。
- 适合需要长期陪伴式心理支持的研究者与开发者参考。
心理专业人才短缺促使网络成为获取心理支持的主要途径。尽管大语言模型(LLMs)为可扩展的在线咨询带来希望,但现有方法普遍存在情感理解不足、策略缺乏适应性及长期记忆缺失的问题,可能导致数字心理健康风险。为此,我们提出TheraMind,一个面向可信在线长期心理辅导的战略性自适应代理。其核心是创新的双环架构:内会话环负责感知患者情绪并动态选择响应策略,结合跨会话记忆保障连续性;外跨会话环则通过每轮后评估疗法有效性,动态调整后续交互策略,实现长期适应。我们在基于真实临床案例的高保真模拟环境中验证该方法。大量评估表明,TheraMind在多轮指标(如连贯性、灵活性、治疗契合度)上显著优于其他方法,证实双环设计能有效模拟战略性、自适应且持续性的治疗行为。代码已开源:https://github.com/Emo-gml/TheraMind。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The shortage of mental health professionals has driven the web to become a primary avenue for accessible psychological support. While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer promise for scalable web-based counseling, existing approaches often lack emotional understanding, adaptive strategies, and long-term memory. These limitations pose risks to digital well-being, as disjointed interactions can fail to support vulnerable users effectively. To address these gaps, we introduce TheraMind, a strategic and adaptive agent designed for trustworthy online longitudinal counseling. The cornerstone of TheraMind is a novel dual-loop architecture that decouples the complex counseling process into an Intra-Session Loop for tactical dialogue management and a Cross-Session Loop for strategic therapeutic planning. The Intra-Session Loop perceives the patient's emotional state to dynamically select response strategies while leveraging cross-session memory to ensure continuity. Crucially, the Cross-Session Loop empowers the agent with long-term adaptability by evaluating the efficacy of the applied therapy after each session and adjusting the method for subsequent interactions. We validate our approach in a high-fidelity simulation environment grounded in real clinical cases. Extensive evaluations show that TheraMind outperforms other methods, especially on multi-session metrics like Coherence, Flexibility, and Therapeutic Attunement, validating the effectiveness of its dual-loop design in emulating strategic, adaptive, and longitudinal therapeutic behavior. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/Emo-gml/TheraMind.
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