ace"There is a Place for it"-Practitioners' Perspectives on Situated Ethical Acceptability of AI Technologies for Mental Health Practice: Qualitative Study
Background: Design research on AI technologies for mental health has expanded rapidly, yet existing work has largely focused on practitioners' perspectives within isolated therapeutic stages or specific services. As a result, there is limited understanding of how practitioners view the role of AI across the full therapeutic journey, including assessment, diagnosis, and treatment, or how these perspectives can be translated into actionable and ethically grounded design guidance. This lack of stage-specific guidan…
Interviewed mental health practitioners saw valuable roles for AI in supporting clinical assessment and treatment, provided it supports and validates rather than replaces clinical judgment.
Practitioners strongly resisted autonomous AI diagnosis, which they saw as the most ethically sensitive stage, and raised concerns about data validity, inclusivity, privacy, transparency and explainability.
The evidence consists of perspectives from 18 interviewed practitioners and proposed design directions; the abstract does not report testing of any AI tool's clinical outcomes.
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- Peer-reviewedJMIR Mental Health2026-10-19
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Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-1932, v1: “"There is a Place for it"-Practitioners' Perspectives on Situated Ethical Acceptability of AI Technologies for Mental Health Practice: Qualitative Study.” Truvace, 2026-10-19. /record/TRV-2026-1932 (accessed at citation time). sha256 e98b9bef94bc1839…
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