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Theme Issue 2025: AI-Powered Therapy Bots and Virtual Companions in Digital Mental Health (88) Natural Language Processing (1340) Depression and Mood Disorders; Suicide Prevention (2525) Methods and New Tools in Mental Health Research (944) Chatbots and Conversational Agents (1246) Generative Language Models Including ChatGPT (1646)

Published on in Vol 13 (2026)

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AI Chatbots for Mental Health Self-Management: Lived Experience–Centered Qualitative Study

AI Chatbots for Mental Health Self-Management: Lived Experience–Centered Qualitative Study

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Dong Whi Yoo1 Author Orcid Image ;   Jiayue Melissa Shi2 Author Orcid Image ;   Violeta J Rodriguez3 Author Orcid Image ;   Koustuv Saha2 Author Orcid Image
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  1. Moya-Sanchez D. Artificial Intelligence in Psychiatry: A Clinical Framework for the Supervised Integration of Large Language Models when Patients Are Already Using Them. AI in Neuroscience 2026;2(2-3):45 View
  2. Springer F, Nicolay N, Mehnert-Theuerkauf A. Künstliche Intelligenz im Alltag von Patient:innen. Forum 2026;41(4):272 View
  3. Saha K, Jain Y, Rodriguez V, De Choudhury M. Linguistic comparison of AI- and human-written responses to online mental health queries. npj Artificial Intelligence 2026;2(1) View
  4. Das Swain V, Tongtawee T, Wang O, Hsu J, Jacobson N, Mishra V. Seamful Design Considerations for Human-in-the-Loop Digital Phenotyping of Mental Health. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies 2026;10(3):1 View
  5. Xiao W, Cao X, Jin W, Chen X, Cai J, Luo X, Deng J. Psychological support for depression and anxiety across chronic illness contexts: a comparative evaluation of three general-purpose AI chatbots. Frontiers in Psychiatry 2026;17 View

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  1. Fullwood C, Stiff C, Chadwick D. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cyberpsychology. View

Conference Proceedings

  1. Rahman M, Chaudhry B. Proceedings of the 2026 Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Ethical Sensemaking in AI Mental Health Chatbots: An Analysis of User Reviews View
  2. Goel D, Goyal A, Duddu V, Pal O, Rodriguez V, Brown D, Karkar R, Yoo D, Saha K. Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Human-AI Complementarity and Alignment. When AI Says "I have been in similar situations": Synthetic Lived Experience in Peer-like Caregiver Support View
  3. Shang Y, Ge Y, Robinson L, Wang E, Claisse C, Bull C, Kirk D. Proceedings of the 14th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Interpreting AI-Mediated Support: Understanding Its Effectiveness in Social Media–Induced Anxiety View