Foundations

Generative AI for Therapists: Foundations

— Making clinical work, teaching and publishing a little lighter —

From your first encounter with generative AI to the differences between the major tools, what they are good and bad at, role prompting, prompt technique, and building your own GPTs and Gems. The first map. 15 chapters in all.

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CONTENTS

Contents

Introduction

  1. 00 Before you begin — about this guide — Making clinical work, teaching and publishing a little lighter —

Part 1 | Meeting generative AI

  1. 01 Chapter 1. Why therapists should learn generative AI now Treat generative AI as an *aid* to a therapist, not a *replacement* for one
  2. 02 Chapter 2. What ChatGPT actually is GPT = Generative Pre-trained Transformer
  3. 03 Chapter 3. How ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude differ The three big AI tools work on nearly the same principle, but they *feel* different
  4. 04 Chapter 4. Knowing what generative AI is good and bad at Generative AI is very strong at organising, summarising, explaining and translating
  5. 05 Chapter 5. Start by using it as a sounding board Do not aim at efficiency gains straight away; start with "someone to talk it over with"
  6. 06 Chapter 6. How to think about personal information and security Anonymise personal information before entering it

Part 2 | Putting it to work

  1. 07 Chapter 7. Give it a role, and the answers improve Specify up front *who* it is answering as
  2. 08 Chapter 8. Summarising long documents, and uploading files You can upload a file as it is and have it summarised
  3. 09 Chapter 9. Give it context and constraints Given little information, AI falls back on generalities
  4. 10 Chapter 10. Ten prompt techniques Knowing the main techniques makes it easier to adapt
  5. 11 Chapter 11. Using AI for data analysis Visualising survey, spreadsheet and assessment data becomes easy
  6. 12 Chapter 12. Patient explanations, materials, and publishing Generative AI extends your ability to communicate
  7. 13 Chapter 13. Building your own AI with GPTs and Gems ChatGPT's GPTs and Gemini's Gems let you build an AI that is yours

Closing Chapter | The therapist in an age of AI

  1. Closing Chapter | The therapist in an age of AI We have worked through how to use generative AI. Many readers will have come away thinking it can do a great deal. And with that comes the question again:

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