📰 Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology 2026 — accepted papers

Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology, held in San Diego, California, USA, July 2026 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 45 papers of it; our library holds 18 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 San Diego, California, United States · 🗓 July 2026

Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. Clinical Prompt Engineering: Encoding Clinical Knowledge into AI Training Simulations - A Crisis Deployment Case Study ↗Yuval Holzman, Eshkol Rafaeli, Zohar Elyoseph et al.1 citation
2. Culture by Design: A Sociotechnical Framework for Culturally Grounded AI for Mental HealthSunny Rai, Elizabeth Stade, Graise Zhou et al.1 citation · our summary
3. Designing Structured Conversational Support for Tuberculosis Treatment Adherence and Patient Coping ↗Priyanshi Garg, Sarah Iribarren, Sikha Pentyala et al.1 citation
4. Evaluating Document-Tuned Transformer Representations for Person-level Mental Health AssessmentAaron Marker, Oscar Kjell, Vasudha Varadarajan et al.1 citation · our summary
5. Exploration of Perceptual Speech Features for Clinical Decision-Support in Mental Health CareVassilis Lyberatos, Edmund Dervakos, Eleni Adamidi et al.1 citation · our summary

All accepted papers (45)

The most cited first; 18 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. Clinical Prompt Engineering: Encoding Clinical Knowledge into AI Training Simulations - A Crisis Deployment Case Study ↗Yuval Holzman, Eshkol Rafaeli, Zohar Elyoseph et al.1 citation
2. Culture by Design: A Sociotechnical Framework for Culturally Grounded AI for Mental HealthSunny Rai, Elizabeth Stade, Graise Zhou et al.1 citation · our summary
3. Designing Structured Conversational Support for Tuberculosis Treatment Adherence and Patient Coping ↗Priyanshi Garg, Sarah Iribarren, Sikha Pentyala et al.1 citation
4. Evaluating Document-Tuned Transformer Representations for Person-level Mental Health AssessmentAaron Marker, Oscar Kjell, Vasudha Varadarajan et al.1 citation · our summary
5. Exploration of Perceptual Speech Features for Clinical Decision-Support in Mental Health CareVassilis Lyberatos, Edmund Dervakos, Eleni Adamidi et al.1 citation · our summary
6. A Multi-Strategy Fusion Framework for Dynamic Mental State Modeling ↗Mengjia Zhang, Rui Chen, Haonan Xiao et al.
7. Agentic Pipelines Meet Retrieval-Augmented ICL: A Zero-Training Approach to Mental Health Modeling ↗Anson Antony, Gautham Vijay Kumar, Annika M. Schoene
8. Automated Detection and Classification of Delusion-related Content in Naturalistic Audio Diaries Using Multi-Agent Language Models ↗Feng Chen, Justin Tauscher, Changye Li et al.
9. Automatic Annotation of Mental Health Recovery Narratives: A Benchmark StudyShrankhla Pandey, Graham Murray, Ben Laws et al.our summary
10. Before the Labels: How Dataset Construction Shapes Suicidality Detection in Clinical Text ↗Priyanshi Garg, Ishita Rao, Jieqiong Ding et al.
11. CUNY at CLPsych 2026: A Pipeline Approach to Classification and Summarization of Mental Health Change ↗Amirmohammad Ziaei Bideh, Shameed Job, Ava Yahyapour et al.
12. Creating Multilingual Mental Health Dialogue Datasets: Limits of Persona-Based Localization via Nationality and Language ↗Yunkai Xu, Saeed Abdullah
13. Discriminant Validity: Disentangling Health and Emotional Constructs from Language-Based Assessments ↗Scott Feltman, Adithya V Ganesan, Whitney Ringwald et al.
14. DreamerNLplus: Interpretable Modeling of Mental Health Dynamics from Social Media Timelines using Hybrid Rule-Based and RAG MethodsMaryia Zhyrko, Daisy Lal, Erik van Mulligen et al.our summary
15. Enhancing Mental Health Counseling Support in Bangladesh using Culturally-grounded Knowledge ↗Md Arid Hasan, Azhagu Meena Sp, Aditya Khan et al.
16. Exploring Profiles of Cognitive Distortions Associated with Mental Health Disorders ↗Alina Anikejeva, Kairit Sirts
17. Facet-Informed Prompting for LLM-Based Personality Assessment: Error-Guided Exemplar Selection and Hierarchical Prediction ↗Rasiq Hussain, Juhi Shah, Joshua Oltmanns et al.
18. From Responses to Trajectories: Modeling the Development of Reflective Listening SkillsDhruvil Thummar, Verónica Pérez-Rosasour summary
19. Ground Truths in Suicide Research: The Current State of AI-Based Suicide Detection in Social MediaYaakov Ophir, Ofri Hefetz, Refael Tikochinski et al.our summary
20. Hierarchical Multi-Stage Modeling of Adaptive and Maladaptive Self-States in Social Media TimelinesAbir Naskar, Mike Conwayour summary
21. LLMs as Standardised Patients for Motivational Interviewing: How Faithful Are They? ↗Van Hoang, Eoin Rogers, Robert Ross
22. Language-Based Detection of Adherence to Evidence-Based Psychotherapy Scripts ↗Samuel T. Campione, Elizabeth C. Stade, Stefanie T. LoSavio et al.
23. McMasters of Change: Predicting Well-Being States and Transitions from Longitudinal LanguageHongyi Zhang, Derron Li, Scarlett Cleary et al.our summary
24. Measuring the quality of therapy sessions against assessment scales using augmented semantic-similarity approaches ↗Kejian Cui, Simon D'alfonso, Mike Conway
25. Mirroring Minds: Asymmetric Linguistic Accommodation and Diagnostic Identity in ADHD and Autism Reddit CommunitiesSaad Mankarious, Nour Zeid, Iyad Ait Hou et al.our summary

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📄 Papers with our summary in our library (18)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. Exploration of Perceptual Speech Features for Clinical Decision-Support in Mental Health CareWorkshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical PsychologyVassilis Lyberatos, Edmund Dervakos, Eleni Adamidi, et al.2026 · 1 citation
2. Evaluating Document-Tuned Transformer Representations for Person-level Mental Health AssessmentWorkshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical PsychologyAaron Marker, Oscar Kjell, Vasudha Varadarajan, et al.2026 · 1 citation
3. Hierarchical Multi-Stage Modeling of Adaptive and Maladaptive Self-States in Social Media TimelinesWorkshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical PsychologyAbir Naskar, Mike Conway2026 · 1 citation
4. Culture by Design: A Sociotechnical Framework for Culturally Grounded AI for Mental HealthWorkshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical PsychologySunny Rai, Elizabeth Stade, Graise Zhou, et al.2026 · 1 citation
5. Team Aurevia at CLPsych 2026: Local Healthcare NLP for Schema-Constrained Self-State ModelingWorkshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical PsychologyNathan Roll, Irene Yi, Sufian Aldogom, et al.2026 · 1 citation
6. McMasters of Change: Predicting Well-Being States and Transitions from Longitudinal LanguageWorkshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical PsychologyHongyi Zhang, Derron Li, Scarlett Cleary, et al.2026 · 1 citation
7. DreamerNLplus: Interpretable Modeling of Mental Health Dynamics from Social Media Timelines using Hybrid Rule-Based and RAG MethodsWorkshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical PsychologyMaryia Zhyrko, Daisy Lal, Erik van Mulligen, et al.2026 · 1 citation
8. Mirroring Minds: Asymmetric Linguistic Accommodation and Diagnostic Identity in ADHD and Autism Reddit CommunitiesWorkshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical PsychologySaad Mankarious, Nour Zeid, Iyad Ait Hou, et al.2026
9. Mostly Grounded, Occasionally Risky: Expert Evaluation of LLM-Generated Supervisory Feedback in a Psychotherapy Training SimulatorWorkshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical PsychologyAdrian Montesano, Justin K. Bloomberg, Marc Pérez-Buriel2026
10. Ground Truths in Suicide Research: The Current State of AI-Based Suicide Detection in Social MediaWorkshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical PsychologyYaakov Ophir, Ofri Hefetz, Refael Tikochinski, et al.2026
11. Automatic Annotation of Mental Health Recovery Narratives: A Benchmark StudyWorkshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical PsychologyShrankhla Pandey, Graham Murray, Ben Laws, et al.2026
12. On the Role of Context in LLM Alignment to Mental Health Counseling CompetenciesWorkshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical PsychologySadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo, Marcos Zampieri, Özlem Uzuner2026
13. Thinking With a Machine: An AI Agent's Account of Agentic Research in Clinical PsychologyWorkshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical PsychologyElad Refoua, Mor Bar2026
14. The Text Aphasia Battery (TAB): A Clinically-Grounded Benchmark for Aphasia-Like Deficits in Language ModelsWorkshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical PsychologyNathan Roll, Jill Kries, Flora Jin, et al.2026
15. Psycholinguistic Profiles of Cognitive Distortions in Reddit DataWorkshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical PsychologyNeha Sharma, Navneet Agarwal, Kairit Sirts2026
16. The Reliability Illusion in Synthetic Patients: Psychometric Misalignment of Open-weight LLMs on PHQ-9 and GAD-7Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical PsychologyQian Shen, Yu Han2026
17. The Visibility of Depression in Social Media: Mapping Symptoms to Linguistic FeaturesWorkshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical PsychologyȘtefana-Arina Tăbușcă, Ana Sabina Uban, Liviu Dinu2026
18. From Responses to Trajectories: Modeling the Development of Reflective Listening SkillsWorkshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical PsychologyDhruvil Thummar, Verónica Pérez-Rosas2026

🧭 Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

🧠Language models & pretraining (4)📏Evaluation & benchmarks (3)🧒Psycholinguistics & language acquisition (1)

📚 Fields

💭Psychology (16)🖥️Computer Science (13)🎭Arts and Humanities (6)🩺Medicine (4)🤝Social Sciences (3)🎯Decision Sciences (1)🧠Neuroscience (1)🏥Health Professions (1)

🧑‍🔬 Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

🏛️ Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

🎓Stanford UniversityStanford · United States3 works here🎓University of CambridgeCambridge · United Kingdom2 works here🎓Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh · United States2 works here🎓Leiden UniversityLeiden · Netherlands1 work here🎓Texas State UniversitySan Marcos · United States1 work here🎓Harvard UniversityCambridge · United States1 work here🎓Universitat Oberta de CatalunyaBarcelona · Spain1 work here🎓Reichman UniversityHerzliya · Israel1 work here🎓Bar-Ilan UniversityRamat Gan · Israel1 work here🎓University of BucharestBucharest · Romania1 work here🎓University of NottinghamNottingham · United Kingdom1 work here🎓University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUrbana · United States1 work here

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