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Methods and New Tools in Mental Health Research (940) Natural Language Processing (1332) Depression and Mood Disorders; Suicide Prevention (2520) Machine Learning (3339) Generative Language Models Including ChatGPT (1638) Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in AI (218) Responsible Health AI (266)

Published on in Vol 13 (2026)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/88435, first published .
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Between Help and Harm: An Evaluation Study of Mental Health Crisis Handling by Large Language Models

Between Help and Harm: An Evaluation Study of Mental Health Crisis Handling by Large Language Models

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Adrian Arnaiz-Rodriguez1 Author Orcid Image ;   Miguel Baidal1 Author Orcid Image ;   Erik Derner1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Jenn Layton Annable3 Author Orcid Image ;   Mark Ball4 Author Orcid Image ;   Mark Ince5 Author Orcid Image ;   Elvira Perez Vallejos6 Author Orcid Image ;   Nuria Oliver1 Author Orcid Image
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