Enhancing Mental Health Counseling Support in Bangladesh using Culturally-Grounded Knowledge
Published in CLPsych Workshop 2026 at ACL 2026, 2026
This work studies how culturally grounded, clinically validated knowledge can improve LLM-based mental health counseling support for para-counselors in Bangladesh. It compares retrieval-augmented generation with a knowledge graph-based approach, showing that structured expert knowledge can improve contextual relevance, clinical appropriateness, and practical usability.
Recommended citation: Md Arid Hasan, Azhagu Meena SP, Aditya Khan, Abu Md Akteruzzaman Bhuiyan, Helal Uddin Ahmed, Joysree Debi, Farig Sadeque, En-Shiun Annie Lee, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed. 2026. Enhancing Mental Health Counseling Support in Bangladesh using Culturally-Grounded Knowledge. In Proceedings of the CLPsych Workshop 2026 at ACL 2026.
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