Limbic’s Post

❌ We all know 'off the shelf' AI products like ChatGPT and Gemini shouldn't be used as therapists. ✅ But you know what they are great at being....patients. With their ability to mimic natural conversation and access vast information on mental health symptoms, AI models can role play as an infinite number of people experiencing mental health issues. 💬 I've recently been using ChatGPT to role play therapy sessions, allowing me to hone my clinical skills between seeing real patients. 🙏 And it's so easy and quick to set up! All you need is a free ChatGPT plan and a short prompt per 'patient' (see images for an example). Some great use cases for AI role play: 1. Practising an intervention or treatment protocol that you haven't used in a while. 2. Supporting a diagnosis/patient presentation that you rarely see in your clinical practise. 3. On psychotherapy/psychology training programs, to support in-class role play and at-home skills practise. 4. Honing your ability to deal with challenging situations (eg. a highly distressed patient, or a patient with complex co-morbidities). 5. Within clinical skills supervision, where you could work through a situation as a group. AI isn't here to replace therapists, but to be used as an amazing tool to improve our clinical practise (also see the amazing work we're doing in this field at Limbic!)