Natural language processing for cognitive therapy: Extracting schemas from thought records.

ABSTRACT: The cognitive approach to psychotherapy aims to change patients' maladaptive schemas, that is, overly negative views on themselves, the world, or the future. To obtain awareness of these views, they record their thought processes in situations that caused pathogenic emotional responses. The schemas underlying such thought records have, thus far, been largely manually identified. Using recent advances in natural language processing, we take this one step further by automatically extracting schemas from thought records. To this end, we asked 320 healthy participants on Amazon Mechanical Turk to each complete five thought records consisting of several utterances reflecting cognitive processes. Agreement between two raters on manually scoring the utterances with respect to how much they reflec

SUBMITTER: Burger F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8523074 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature