Role emerging for deep learning in online psychotherapy – IAM Network

The application of deep learning-facilitated automatic annotation "provides an effective means of obtaining categorization of patient utterances during text-based internet-enabled CBT, at a scale previously beyond the scope of psychotherapy research, providing evidence of both positive and negative associations between patient utterances categories and outcomes," the authors conclude. "Coupled with an automated understanding of therapist language," they add, "deep learning can be used to enable a data-driven understanding of the relationship between therapeutic interventions, patient language and clinical outcomes." The study is available in full for free.