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Mental Health Professionals´ Perceptions of Outsourcing Tasks to Large Language Models and Human Colleagues

2026-02-20

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<p>Large language models (LLMs) could improve mental health care, but little is known about how professionals perceive therapists who outsource tasks to them. In a preregistered experiment (N = 226), mental health professionals evaluated a therapist who either completed tasks personally, outsourced them to an LLM or a human colleague across six core clinical (diagnosis, psychoeducation, treatment) and peripheral (...

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Literature Corpus work: 9a5c0215-57a7-5734-920b-6b8cce19aafe
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/eymz5_v1

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