Official repository for the paper:
"Reframe Your Life Story: Interactive Narrative Therapist and Innovative Moment Assessment with Large Language Models"

Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) has opened new possibilities for mental health support, yet current approaches lack realism in simulating specialized psychotherapy and fail to capture therapeutic progression over time. We propose a comprehensive framework with two core components: INT (Interactive Narrative Therapist) and IMA (Innovative Moment Assessment). Experimental results on 260 simulated clients and 230 human participants reveal that INT consistently outperforms standard LLMs in therapeutic quality and depth.

• INT (Interactive Narrative Therapist): First computational framework translating narrative therapy principles into theory-driven, progression-aware therapy simulation
• IMA (Innovative Moment Assessment): Novel therapy-centric evaluation method tracking narrative transformation markers ("Innovative Moments")
• Comprehensive Evaluation: Extensive experiments with both automated assessment and human evaluation demonstrating significant improvements over existing approaches

1. Stage Planning: Four progressive therapeutic stages

   • Trust Building (Reassuring)
   • Problem Externalization (Empowering)
   • Re-authoring Conversation (Transformative)
   • Re-membering Conversation (Reconnecting)

2. Reflection Level Planning: Dynamic depth adjustment within each stage

3. Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Expert-style response generation

• Level 1 IMs: Creating Distance from the Problem
• Level 2 IMs: Centered on the Change
• Salience Metric: Quantitative progression measurement

This repository is currently a placeholder for the upcoming code release.

📋 What's Available Now:

• Paper information and abstract
• Framework overview and key contributions
• Citation information

🔄 Coming Soon (Upon Paper Acceptance):

• Complete implementation of INT (Interactive Narrative Therapist)
• IMA (Innovative Moment Assessment) evaluation framework
• Experimental scripts and evaluation code
• Dataset processing scripts
• Detailed documentation and tutorials

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If you find this work useful, please cite our paper:

@article{feng2025reframe,
  title={Reframe Your Life Story: Interactive Narrative Therapist and Innovative Moment Assessment with Large Language Models},
  author={Feng, Yi and Wang, Jiaqi and Zhang, Wenxuan and Chen, Zhuang and Shen, Yutong and Xiao, Xiyao and Huang, Minlie and Jing, Liping and Yu, Jian},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.20241},
  year={2025}
}

Lead Author:

• Yi Feng: yifeng@bjtu.edu.cn

This work is designed to complement, not replace professional therapeutic care. Our system:

• Should be used only as a research tool or supplementary support
• Requires clear disclosure of AI interaction to users
• Has been evaluated with appropriate ethical oversight
• Includes comprehensive participant protection measures

• Beijing Jiaotong University
• Tsinghua University (CoAI Group)
• Singapore University of Technology and Design
• Central South University
• Tencent Jarvis Lab
• Lingxin AI

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