Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal, Multilingual, and Multicultural Mental Health and Psychotherapy (MultiPsyche)

Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal, Multilingual, and Multicultural Mental Health and Psychotherapy (MultiPsyche) Zimu Wang editor Yiwen Jiang editor Yaling Shen editor Xiangyu Zhao editor Stephanie Fong editor Xin Sun editor Yi Zhou editor Shaoxiong Ji editor Robert Desimone editor Barnaby Nelson editor Dominic Dwyer editor Zongyuan Ge editor 2026-11 Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, Zhuhai, China text conference publication 979-8-89176-448-4 multipsyche-2026-1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.multipsyche-1.0/ Soften Resistance: Adaptive Therapeutic Policy Management for Disengaged Clients in Mental Health Support Hristina Chalakova author Yifan Mo author Xin Sun author Jiahuan Pei author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal, Multilingual, and Multicultural Mental Health and Psychotherapy (MultiPsyche) Zimu Wang editor Yiwen Jiang editor Yaling Shen editor Xiangyu Zhao editor Stephanie Fong editor Xin Sun editor Yi Zhou editor Shaoxiong Ji editor Robert Desimone editor Barnaby Nelson editor Dominic Dwyer editor Zongyuan Ge editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, Zhuhai, China conference publication 979-8-89176-448-4 chalakova-etal-2026-soften https://aclanthology.org/2026.multipsyche-1.1/ 2026-11 1 14 When Short Responses Are Hard to Distinguish in Translation Audits João Victor M Correa author Pedro Shiozawa author Victor Hierro Moraes Ferreira author Emanoel Cristhian Leão Marinho author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal, Multilingual, and Multicultural Mental Health and Psychotherapy (MultiPsyche) Zimu Wang editor Yiwen Jiang editor Yaling Shen editor Xiangyu Zhao editor Stephanie Fong editor Xin Sun editor Yi Zhou editor Shaoxiong Ji editor Robert Desimone editor Barnaby Nelson editor Dominic Dwyer editor Zongyuan Ge editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, Zhuhai, China conference publication 979-8-89176-448-4 correa-etal-2026-short https://aclanthology.org/2026.multipsyche-1.2/ 2026-11 15 25 Digital Phenotyping Is Not a Shared Language: A Construct Audit of Public Mental-Health Datasets Zefeng Sun author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal, Multilingual, and Multicultural Mental Health and Psychotherapy (MultiPsyche) Zimu Wang editor Yiwen Jiang editor Yaling Shen editor Xiangyu Zhao editor Stephanie Fong editor Xin Sun editor Yi Zhou editor Shaoxiong Ji editor Robert Desimone editor Barnaby Nelson editor Dominic Dwyer editor Zongyuan Ge editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, Zhuhai, China conference publication 979-8-89176-448-4 sun-2026-digital https://aclanthology.org/2026.multipsyche-1.3/ 2026-11 26 34 Towards Emotion Consistency Analysis of Large Language Models in Emotional Conversational Contexts Sneha Oram author Ojaswita Bhushan author Tejomay Padole author Suyash Awate author Pushpak Bhattacharyya author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal, Multilingual, and Multicultural Mental Health and Psychotherapy (MultiPsyche) Zimu Wang editor Yiwen Jiang editor Yaling Shen editor Xiangyu Zhao editor Stephanie Fong editor Xin Sun editor Yi Zhou editor Shaoxiong Ji editor Robert Desimone editor Barnaby Nelson editor Dominic Dwyer editor Zongyuan Ge editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, Zhuhai, China conference publication 979-8-89176-448-4 oram-etal-2026-towards https://aclanthology.org/2026.multipsyche-1.4/ 2026-11 35 43 The Label-Translation Fallacy: A Four-Layer Validity Protocol for Multilingual Mental Health NLP Wajdi Zaghouani author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal, Multilingual, and Multicultural Mental Health and Psychotherapy (MultiPsyche) Zimu Wang editor Yiwen Jiang editor Yaling Shen editor Xiangyu Zhao editor Stephanie Fong editor Xin Sun editor Yi Zhou editor Shaoxiong Ji editor Robert Desimone editor Barnaby Nelson editor Dominic Dwyer editor Zongyuan Ge editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, Zhuhai, China conference publication 979-8-89176-448-4 zaghouani-2026-label https://aclanthology.org/2026.multipsyche-1.5/ 2026-11 44 54 Beyond Binary ADHD Classification: Multimodal Phenotyping in a Clinical Psychiatric Cohort Siyu Li author E Margaret Perkoff author Lyle Ungar author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal, Multilingual, and Multicultural Mental Health and Psychotherapy (MultiPsyche) Zimu Wang editor Yiwen Jiang editor Yaling Shen editor Xiangyu Zhao editor Stephanie Fong editor Xin Sun editor Yi Zhou editor Shaoxiong Ji editor Robert Desimone editor Barnaby Nelson editor Dominic Dwyer editor Zongyuan Ge editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, Zhuhai, China conference publication 979-8-89176-448-4 li-etal-2026-beyond-binary https://aclanthology.org/2026.multipsyche-1.6/ 2026-11 55 68 MAPS: Robot-Mediated Multimodal Mental Health Screening for Chinese Adolescents Zhicheng Du author Yang Liu author Zheng Chen author Zhuo Deng author Zhaotian Xie author Wenji Xi author Xi Yuan author Zhen Liang author Dongmei Yu author Chenggang Yan author Jiansong Ji author Peiwu Qin author Zhenglin Chen author Lan Ma author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal, Multilingual, and Multicultural Mental Health and Psychotherapy (MultiPsyche) Zimu Wang editor Yiwen Jiang editor Yaling Shen editor Xiangyu Zhao editor Stephanie Fong editor Xin Sun editor Yi Zhou editor Shaoxiong Ji editor Robert Desimone editor Barnaby Nelson editor Dominic Dwyer editor Zongyuan Ge editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, Zhuhai, China conference publication 979-8-89176-448-4 du-etal-2026-maps https://aclanthology.org/2026.multipsyche-1.7/ 2026-11 69 79 Growth Above All: Goals and Beneficiaries of LLM Silver Linings in Thai and US Settings Pachaya Sailamul author Sirirat Ularntinon author Nutchanon Yongsatianchot author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal, Multilingual, and Multicultural Mental Health and Psychotherapy (MultiPsyche) Zimu Wang editor Yiwen Jiang editor Yaling Shen editor Xiangyu Zhao editor Stephanie Fong editor Xin Sun editor Yi Zhou editor Shaoxiong Ji editor Robert Desimone editor Barnaby Nelson editor Dominic Dwyer editor Zongyuan Ge editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, Zhuhai, China conference publication 979-8-89176-448-4 sailamul-etal-2026-growth https://aclanthology.org/2026.multipsyche-1.8/ 2026-11 80 104 Cross-Lingual and Cross-Genre Transfer for Arabic Schizophrenia Detection in Social Media Amal Alqahtani author Mona Diab author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal, Multilingual, and Multicultural Mental Health and Psychotherapy (MultiPsyche) Zimu Wang editor Yiwen Jiang editor Yaling Shen editor Xiangyu Zhao editor Stephanie Fong editor Xin Sun editor Yi Zhou editor Shaoxiong Ji editor Robert Desimone editor Barnaby Nelson editor Dominic Dwyer editor Zongyuan Ge editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, Zhuhai, China conference publication 979-8-89176-448-4 alqahtani-diab-2026-cross https://aclanthology.org/2026.multipsyche-1.9/ 2026-11 105 117 PSI-Bench: Interpretable and Clinically Meaningful Evaluation of Depression Patient Simulators Nguyen Khoi Hoang author Shuhaib Mehri author Tse-An Hsu author Yi-Jyun Sun author Quynh Xuan Nguyen Truong author Khoa D Doan author Dilek Hakkani-Tür author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal, Multilingual, and Multicultural Mental Health and Psychotherapy (MultiPsyche) Zimu Wang editor Yiwen Jiang editor Yaling Shen editor Xiangyu Zhao editor Stephanie Fong editor Xin Sun editor Yi Zhou editor Shaoxiong Ji editor Robert Desimone editor Barnaby Nelson editor Dominic Dwyer editor Zongyuan Ge editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, Zhuhai, China conference publication 979-8-89176-448-4 khoi-hoang-etal-2026-psi https://aclanthology.org/2026.multipsyche-1.10/ 2026-11 118 144 Temporal Semantic Analysis of Arabic Mental-Health Discourse using Discrete Wavelet Transform Rana Salama author Amal Alqahtani author Mona Diab author Abdou Youssef author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal, Multilingual, and Multicultural Mental Health and Psychotherapy (MultiPsyche) Zimu Wang editor Yiwen Jiang editor Yaling Shen editor Xiangyu Zhao editor Stephanie Fong editor Xin Sun editor Yi Zhou editor Shaoxiong Ji editor Robert Desimone editor Barnaby Nelson editor Dominic Dwyer editor Zongyuan Ge editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, Zhuhai, China conference publication 979-8-89176-448-4 salama-etal-2026-temporal https://aclanthology.org/2026.multipsyche-1.11/ 2026-11 145 158 Overview of the PsychEthicsEval Shared Task at MultiPsyche 2026: Evaluating LLMs Against Australian Mental Health Ethics Yaling Shen author Zimu Wang author Stephanie Fong author Yiwen Jiang author Feilong Tang author Qingyang Xu author Xiangyu Zhao author Zhongxing Xu author Jiahe Liu author Jinpeng Hu author Zongyuan Ge author Dominic Dwyer author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal, Multilingual, and Multicultural Mental Health and Psychotherapy (MultiPsyche) Zimu Wang editor Yiwen Jiang editor Yaling Shen editor Xiangyu Zhao editor Stephanie Fong editor Xin Sun editor Yi Zhou editor Shaoxiong Ji editor Robert Desimone editor Barnaby Nelson editor Dominic Dwyer editor Zongyuan Ge editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, Zhuhai, China conference publication 979-8-89176-448-4 shen-etal-2026-overview https://aclanthology.org/2026.multipsyche-1.12/ 2026-11 159 163 PsyEthosRAG: Prompting and Retrieval for Aligning LLMs with Mental Health Ethics Nijia Han author Yu Zhang author Jia Meng author Shuihua Wang author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal, Multilingual, and Multicultural Mental Health and Psychotherapy (MultiPsyche) Zimu Wang editor Yiwen Jiang editor Yaling Shen editor Xiangyu Zhao editor Stephanie Fong editor Xin Sun editor Yi Zhou editor Shaoxiong Ji editor Robert Desimone editor Barnaby Nelson editor Dominic Dwyer editor Zongyuan Ge editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, Zhuhai, China conference publication 979-8-89176-448-4 han-etal-2026-psyethosrag https://aclanthology.org/2026.multipsyche-1.13/ 2026-11 164 172 Training-Free Ethics-Aware Prompting and Safety- and Identity-Aware Retrieval-Augmented Generation Junjie Zhou author Junran Wang author Ruize Tang author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal, Multilingual, and Multicultural Mental Health and Psychotherapy (MultiPsyche) Zimu Wang editor Yiwen Jiang editor Yaling Shen editor Xiangyu Zhao editor Stephanie Fong editor Xin Sun editor Yi Zhou editor Shaoxiong Ji editor Robert Desimone editor Barnaby Nelson editor Dominic Dwyer editor Zongyuan Ge editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, Zhuhai, China conference publication 979-8-89176-448-4 zhou-etal-2026-training https://aclanthology.org/2026.multipsyche-1.14/ 2026-11 173 180 RoleEthic: Structured Prompting and Failure Analysis for Open-Ended Mental Health Ethics Meiyi Qi author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal, Multilingual, and Multicultural Mental Health and Psychotherapy (MultiPsyche) Zimu Wang editor Yiwen Jiang editor Yaling Shen editor Xiangyu Zhao editor Stephanie Fong editor Xin Sun editor Yi Zhou editor Shaoxiong Ji editor Robert Desimone editor Barnaby Nelson editor Dominic Dwyer editor Zongyuan Ge editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, Zhuhai, China conference publication 979-8-89176-448-4 qi-2026-roleethic https://aclanthology.org/2026.multipsyche-1.15/ 2026-11 181 185 Prompting-Based Evaluation of Compact Language Models for Australian Mental Health Ethics Subhrajyoti Basu author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal, 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