The Therapeutic Alliance in AI-Assisted Psychotherapy: A Clinical Evaluation of Human-AI Interaction in Mental Health Care
AI is now a new trend in mental health care, with chatbots, digital therapists, and clinical decision-support systems. However, the impact it has on therapeutic alliance, or the process of a mutual and emotional connection between a client and therapist, is not well comprehended. This paper examines the effect of AI-assisted psychotherapy on the formation of alliance and clinical outcomes. Basing its findings on the attachment theory and relational psychoanalysis, as well as the human-computer interaction systems, the study examines how AI facilitates or disrupts the therapy. The scholar concludes that AI is most effectively used as an adjunctive device in a hybrid paradigm of care - human empathy, ethical awareness, and emotional responsiveness are the pillars of successful psychotherapy that cannot be substituted with AI.
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(1) Afshan Tabasum
Independent Scholar, LADO Institute, Vienna, VA 22182, United States.
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APA : Tabasum, A. (2025). The Therapeutic Alliance in AI-Assisted Psychotherapy: A Clinical Evaluation of Human-AI Interaction in Mental Health Care. Global Social Sciences Review, X(III), 321-335. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2025(X-III).28
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CHICAGO : Tabasum, Afshan. 2025. "The Therapeutic Alliance in AI-Assisted Psychotherapy: A Clinical Evaluation of Human-AI Interaction in Mental Health Care." Global Social Sciences Review, X (III): 321-335 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2025(X-III).28
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HARVARD : TABASUM, A. 2025. The Therapeutic Alliance in AI-Assisted Psychotherapy: A Clinical Evaluation of Human-AI Interaction in Mental Health Care. Global Social Sciences Review, X, 321-335.
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MHRA : Tabasum, Afshan. 2025. "The Therapeutic Alliance in AI-Assisted Psychotherapy: A Clinical Evaluation of Human-AI Interaction in Mental Health Care." Global Social Sciences Review, X: 321-335
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MLA : Tabasum, Afshan. "The Therapeutic Alliance in AI-Assisted Psychotherapy: A Clinical Evaluation of Human-AI Interaction in Mental Health Care." Global Social Sciences Review, X.III (2025): 321-335 Print.
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OXFORD : Tabasum, Afshan (2025), "The Therapeutic Alliance in AI-Assisted Psychotherapy: A Clinical Evaluation of Human-AI Interaction in Mental Health Care", Global Social Sciences Review, X (III), 321-335
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TURABIAN : Tabasum, Afshan. "The Therapeutic Alliance in AI-Assisted Psychotherapy: A Clinical Evaluation of Human-AI Interaction in Mental Health Care." Global Social Sciences Review X, no. III (2025): 321-335. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2025(X-III).28