Therapy and Tech Study

We want to test if gen AI can support therapy by recruiting patients already in therapy.

Recent advancements in AI have led to chatbots, such as ChatGPT, capable of providing therapeutic responses. Early research evaluating chatbots' ability to provide relationship advice and single-session relationship interventions has showed that both laypeople and relationship therapists rate them high on attributes such as empathy and helpfulness. We want to test if chatbots can be a good adjunct to traditional therapy. We hypothesize that those who regularly use a chatbot as an adjunct to traditional therapy will have better mental health outcomes. Participants will complete baseline, 4-week (post-intervention) and 4-week post-intervention measures and will be invited to gain their therapists ratings.