{
  "id": 16972,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04524v1",
  "title": "ODRA: Synthesizing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Sessions with Structured Chain-Of-Thought and Dynamic Patient Resistance",
  "summary": "Synthetic generation of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) sessions is challenged by two competing demands: adhering to strict therapeutic structure while modeling the resistant, unpredictable behavior of real patients. Existing script-based methods fail to capture dynamic therapeutic interactions, while multi-agent approaches struggle to adhere to CBT's sequential structure; both suffer from sycophancy, producing overly compliant patients that misrepresent real clinical settings. In this work w",
  "authors": "Javier Rodriguez-Juan, Hiba Arnaout, Jose Garcia-Rodriguez, David Tomás, Iryna Gurevych",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "healthcare,agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-05T06:56:58.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-06T05:10:11.148Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-cslg",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.LG",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16972",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04524v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}