Quantifying the Association Between Psychotherapy Content and Clinical Outcomes Using Deep Learning

Importance

Compared with the treatment of physical conditions, the quality of care of mental health disorders remains poor and the rate of improvement in treatment is slow, a primary reason being the lack of objective and systematic methods for measuring the delivery of psychotherapy.

Objective

To use a deep learning model applied to a large-scale clinical data set of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) session transcripts to...