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Jihan Ryu1, David C Banthin1, Xiaosi Gu2
1Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; Mount Sinai Morningside and West Hospitals, New York, NY, USA.
Abstract:
Increasingly, online platforms are being used to deliver psychotherapy. This, along with the growth in computational psychiatry, provides scientists with new opportunities to quantify how patient-therapist relationships relate to treatment outcomes. We argue that it is necessary to investigate markers and mechanisms that enable successful psychotherapy, and the establishment of therapeutic alliance in particular, using computational tools.
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