Steering the Compass: Aligning Dynamic Psychological Counseling Conversations with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Strategies

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arXiv:2609.20565v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advancements in large language models have revolutionized the field of psychological counseling, especially in the context of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). While the success of CBT relies heavily on dynamic decision-making informed by the client's real-time mental state, this aspect has often been overlooked in current research, limiting both flexibility and therapeutic outcomes. In this paper, we introduce StratCBT, a dataset specific