Generative AI Adoption in Psychotherapy Practice Among Mental Health Professionals: Multicountry Cross-Sectional Survey

Charlotte Blease   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Josefin Hagström   ^{1, 3} , PhD ;   Jens Gaab   ⁴ , PhD ;   Alexis Carey   ⁵ , PsyD ;   Francesco Cipriani   ⁶ , MA ;   Colin Gorman   ⁷ , DClinPsych ;   Antje Frey Nascimento   ⁴ , PhD ;   Amanda Fitzgerald   ⁸ , PhD ;   Lena Holtz   ⁹ , BSc ;   Julian Schwarz   ⁹ , MD ;   Gillian Strudwick   ^{10, 11} , RN, PhD ;   Maria Tibbs   ¹² , PhD ;   John Torous   ² , MD, MBI ;   Jeffrey H D Cornelius-White   ¹³ , PsyD

¹ Participatory eHealth and Health Data Research Group, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden

² Division of Digital Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

³ Centre for Primary Care and Health Services Research, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, England, United Kingdom

⁴ Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Psychology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

⁵ RehabCare, Parkwest Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

⁶ Department of Philosophy, University College London, London, England, United Kingdom

⁷ School of Psychology, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

⁸ School of Psychology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

⁹ Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Immanuel Hospital Rüdersdorf, Brandenburg Medical School, Rüdersdorf, Germany

¹⁰ Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹¹ Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹² Psychology in Education Research Centre, Department of Education, University of York, York, England, United Kingdom

¹³ School of Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, United States