Generative algorithms to improve mental health issue detection

Schema therapy is a physiological treatment technique for mental health issues. Based on the thoughts and behaviour, patients are classified to a schema mode which represents their current state of mind. Automatically classifying these thoughts and behaviours could improve detection of potential mental health issues as well as provide better and...

Automatic Psychological Text Analysis using Recurrent Neural Networks

Schema therapy is a type of psychological treatment for people suffering from personality disorders. A schema is a core psychological state of mind that influences external behaviour through the development of coping styles. Current schema therapy is time inefficient and human-processed. Enabling automatic schema classification helps the overall...

Active Learning To Reduce Human Labeling For Automatic Psychological Text Classification

In recent years there has been an increase in the number of patients for issues relating to mental illness. To this effect to help with this increase, schema mode assessment through a conversation agent is being used to conduct schema therapy, a form of psychological treatment. To train such an agent, training data labeled by humans is necessary...

Automatic schema classification for Schema-Focused Therapy using k-Nearest Neighbour

Personality disorders affect 1 in 7 adults reducing their quality of life. Schema-focused therapy (SFT) has become very popular in Psychotherapy in the treatment of personality disorders (PD), unfortunately there is still in increasing societal need for such mental healthcare. Automation in the assessment of SFT allows for Ecological Momentary...

Creating a feeling of closeness between isolated patient and loved ones: Creating a feeling of closeness between isolated patient and loved ones, during the COVID-19 pandemic

The close app is a concept of a mobile application designed to help COVID-19 patients feel less isolated and lonely, therefore, closer to their loved ones with whom they cannot meet. The main principle of the application lies in fulfilling the fundamental needs of the patients and its family identified throughout the research. An isolated...