| **Dataset Description** |
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| Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.22446 |
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| Language(s) (NLP): English |
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| License: apache-2.0 |
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| Point of Contact: Viet Cuong (Johnny) Nguyen |
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| **Dataset Summary** |
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| CounselingBench is a dataset of 1612 mental health counseling-related questions across 138 case studies extracted from existing NCMHCE mock exams. NCMHCE questions are designed to test a candidate's aptitude in one out of five mental health counseling competencies: |
| - Intake, Assessment & Diagnosis |
| - Counseling Skills & Interventions |
| - Treatment Planning |
| - Professional Practice & Ethics |
| - Core Counseling Attributes |
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| **Data Fields** |
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| - question # (int): The unique numeric identifier for the question |
| - patient demographic (string): Information regarding the patient's demographic |
| - mental status exam (string): Information regarding the patient's mental status examination |
| - presenting problem (string): Information regarding the patient's presenting problem |
| - other contexts (string): Other information regarding the patient's background and presentation |
| - question (string): The full text of a question. |
| - choice a (string): The full text of Choice A |
| - choice b (string): The full text of Choice B |
| - choice c (string): The full text of Choice C |
| - choice d (string): The full text of Choice D |
| - potential answers (string): The concatenated full text of all potential answers to the question |
| - correct answer (string): The full text of the correct answer |
| - correct answer (letter) (string): The letter corresponding to the correct answer |
| - explanation for correct answer (string): Expert-generated explanation for the correct answer |
| - competency (string): Expert-annotated competency which the question aims to test |
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| **Licensing Information** |
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| CounselingBench is now made available under the Apache 2.0 License. |
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| **Citation Information** |
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| Please consider citing our paper if you find this dataset useful: |
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| ``` |
| @article{nguyen2024large, |
| title={Do Large Language Models Align with Core Mental Health Counseling Competencies?}, |
| author={Nguyen, Viet Cuong and Taher, Mohammad and Hong, Dongwan and Possobom, Vinicius Konkolics and Gopalakrishnan, Vibha Thirunellayi and Raj, Ekta and Li, Zihang and Soled, Heather J and Birnbaum, Michael L and Kumar, Srijan and others}, |
| journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.22446}, |
| year={2024} |
| } |
| ``` |
