Title: Integrating artificial intelligence and acceptance and commitment therapy for personalized mental health care in family caregivers.
Abstract: Dr. Connie Chong, an Assistant Professor at the Nethersole School of Nursing at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, has created an innovative AI chatbot named Pai.ACT®. This chatbot incorporates natural language processing with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to enhance therapeutic communication in Chinese, offering tailored mental health recommendations and interventions. Trained on a comprehensive corpus of Chinese therapeutic dialogues, Pai.ACT® achieves an accuracy exceeding 80% in identifying psychological inflexibility processes. This level of precision allows Pai.ACT® to mimic the assessment capabilities and empathetic responses characteristic of trained ACT practitioners, providing an interaction that closely mirrors human support. Since its launch in November 2023, Pai.ACT® has been tailored for caregivers of children with special educational needs (SEN), gaining over 1,100 active users and triaging more than a third of its Focused ACT interventions through video conferencing sessions.
In the upcoming session, Dr. Chong will share the development and practical applications of Pai.ACT®. She will highlight how this tool effectively bridges the gap between advanced technological developments and patient-centric care, positioning Pai.ACT® as an empathetic, accessible resource for family caregivers. Additionally, Dr. Chong will explore the potential implications of Pai.ACT® on the future landscape of mental health services.
Superlab with Dr. Connie Chong, Nethersole School of Nursing at the Chinese University of Hong Kong will be held April 16 at 8am Eastern time/8pm Hong Kong time - please register here
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