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ArticlePsychotherapy (Chicago, Ill.)2025

Automating the assessment of multicultural orientation through machine learning and natural language processing.

Simon B Goldberg, Michael Tanana, Shaakira Haywood Stewart, Camille Y Williams, Christina S Soma, David C Atkins, Zac E Imel, Jesse Owen

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Article in Psychotherapy (Chicago, Ill.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  1. Multimodal assessments of therapist characteristics are largely unrelated to patient outcomes: A preregistered analysis.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2026
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8 authors.

Simon B GoldbergDepartment of Counseling Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.ORCID 0000-0002-6888-0126
Michael TananaLyssn.io.
Shaakira Haywood StewartDepartment of Counseling Psychology, University of Denver.
Camille Y WilliamsDepartment of Counseling Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Christina S SomaLyssn.io.
David C AtkinsLyssn.io.
Zac E ImelLyssn.io.
Jesse OwenDepartment of Counseling Psychology, University of Denver.

Funding

TRAINING PROGRAM IN EMOTION RESEARCHT32MH018931 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI Richard J Davidson · 1989 to 2026
$11.6M
Enhancing the quality of CBT in community mental health through AI-generated fidelity feedbackR42MH128101 · NIMH · LYSSN.IO, INC. · PI ATKINS, DAVID CHARLES, CREED, TORREY A. · 2021 to 2024
$2.6M
Mindfulness training delivered via mobile health to reduce depression and anxietyK23AT010879 · NCCIH · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI GOLDBERG, SIMON B · 2020 to 2024
$786k
John Templeton FoundationNational Institutes of Health; National Institute of Mental HealthNCCIH NIH HHSNCCIH NIH HHS K23 AT010879NIMH NIH HHS R42 MH128101NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH018931
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent scholarship has highlighted the value of therapists adopting a multicultural orientation (MCO) within psychotherapy. A newly developed performance-based measure of MCO capacities exists (MCO-performance task [MCO-PT]) in which therapists respond to video-based vignettes of clients sharing culturally relevant information in therapy. The MCO-PT provides scores related to the three aspects of MCO: cultural humility (i.e., adoption of a nonsuperior and other-oriented stance toward clients), cultural opportunities (i.e., seizing or making moments in session to ask about clients' cultural identities), and cultural comfort (i.e., therapists' comfort in cultural conversations). Although a promising measure, the MCO-PT relies on labor-intensive human coding. The present study evaluated the ability to automate the scoring of the MCO-PT transcripts using modern machine learning and natural language processing methods. We included a sample of 100 participants (

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Cultural CompetencyCultural DiversityMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingProfessional-Patient RelationsPsychotherapyAdultFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedReproducibility of Results

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PMID38300571
PMCPMC11291704

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