AIMH: AI for Mental Health

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Our Mission

AIMH (AI for Mental Health) is a research community dedicated to utilizing AI to advance mental health. Our work spans natural language processing and extends into broader AI applications, with a focus on developing innovative solutions for mental health challenges. Through rigorous research and open collaboration, we aim to bridge the gap between technology and clinical practice, ultimately improving outcomes for individuals worldwide. Join us on our journey to revolutionize mental health, connect with us on Discord and explore our latest findings.

Events

The First Workshop on Multimodal, Multilingual, and Multicultural Mental Health and Psychotherapy

Co-located with AACL 2026

Coming soon!

PsyDefDetect Shared Task

Co-located with BioNLP@ACL 2026

Detecting and classifying psychological defense mechanisms in emotional support dialogues, grounded in the clinically validated Defense Mechanism Rating Scales (DMRS) framework.

View the Shared Task page

Our Works

PsyDefConv

We introduce PsyDefConv (Psychological Defense Mechanisms in Supportive Conversations), a dialogue corpus with help seeker utterances labeled for defense level, and DMRS Co-Pilot, a four-stage pipeline that provides evidence-based pre-annotations.

Check out the paper View on HuggingFace

SQPsych

Structured Questionnaire-based Psychotherapy

Roleplaying with Structure: Synthetic Therapist-Client Conversation Generation from Questionnaires.

View the project page

SWMH Dataset

Reddit SuicideWatch and Mental Health Collection

A comprehensive dataset collected from Reddit for mental health research.

View on Hugging Face

MentalBERT

Publicly Available Pretrained Language Models

A collection of encoder-only models pretrained for mental health applications.

View on Hugging Face

Contributors

Our research community comprises talented researchers from diverse institutions worldwide, including the ELLIS Institute Finland, University of Turku, University of Technology Sydney, Technical University of Darmstadt, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, and The University of Manchester. These experts bring a wealth of knowledge in AI, NLP, and mental health.

Luna Ansari

Aalto University

Shaoxiong Ji

ELLIS Institute Finland &
University of Turku

Hongbin Na

University of Technology Sydney

Doan Nam Long Vu

Technical University of Darmstadt

Zimu Wang

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Kailai Yang

The University of Manchester

* Contributors are listed in alphabetical order by last name.

Join Our Community

We are always looking for passionate researchers and collaborators to join the AIMH community. Whether you are interested in AI, NLP, clinical psychology, or computational psychiatry, come say hi!

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