AI RESEARCH
When Clients Stop Following: A Cognitive Conceptualization Diagram-driven Framework for Strategic Counseling
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2606.04389v1 Announce Type: new Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise in psychological counseling, yet existing benchmarks rely heavily on highly cooperative simulated clients. We observe a critical counselor-following phenomenon: these clients often rapidly shift from resistance to compliance after only a few turns, creating an illusion of therapeutic progress and inflating scores under current evaluation protocols through superficial empathy. To address this evaluation mismatch, we propose a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)-grounded resistance-aware framework. We.