{"id":24174,"date":"2025-09-06T12:25:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=24174"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:10:00","slug":"if-you-use-ai-for-therapy-here-are-5-things-experts-recommend-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2025\/if-you-use-ai-for-therapy-here-are-5-things-experts-recommend-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Use AI For Therapy, Here Are 5 Things Experts Recommend \u2014 The Washington Post <\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read article<\/em><\/a> - Michael Heinz, an assistant professor of psychiatry, is quoted in an article about best practices for using AI therapy chatbots that highlights the Therabot software developed at Dartmouth.\u00a0\"I wouldn't tell somebody necessarily to stop using it if they feel like it's working for them, but I tell them you still have to proceed with caution,\" Heinz said. (Picked up by\u00a0Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>,\u00a0MSN<\/a>,\u00a0The Age<\/a>,\u00a0Brisbane Times<\/a>, and\u00a0Western Australia Today<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read article<\/em><\/a> – Michael Heinz, an assistant professor of psychiatry, is quoted in an article about best practices for using AI therapy chatbots that highlights the Therabot software developed at Dartmouth.\u00a0“I wouldn’t tell somebody necessarily to stop using it if they feel like it’s working for them, but I tell them you still have to proceed with caution,” Heinz said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[1225],"class_list":["post-24174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-ai","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-6hU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24175,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24174\/revisions\/24175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}