<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2024/1210-therapist-is-a-robot.php" dsn="blogs"><featured/><feature_title>Featured News</feature_title><title>Do robots make good therapists?</title><author>Angela Valden</author><author_email>info@skidmore.edu</author_email><pubDate>12/10/2024 09:23:35 AM</pubDate><display>display</display><description>A Scribner Seminar course for first-year students asks that and many other mental health-related questions that encourage critical, creative thought.</description><category>News</category><image_listing><img src="/news/2024/images/1210-therapist-robot-thumbnail.jpg" alt="Assistant Professor of Psychology Luc LaFreniere teaches My Therapist is a Robot: Technology and Psychotherapy"/></image_listing><image><img src="/news/2024/images/1209-therapist-robot-new.jpg" alt="My Therapist is a Robot syllabus image, created by AI"/></image><caption>Assistant Professor of Psychology Luc LaFreniere used OpenAI's Dall-E AI image generator to create this and other images for his Scribner Seminar, My Therapist is a Robot: Technology and Psychotherapy.</caption></item>