Interpreting the APA survey results is tricky because it seems to be something like "proportion of psychologists who report having at least one patient who ___." Based on my math, if each psychologist has about 20 patients, then it might only be like 7% of patients who have talked about using AI, which is a little surprising
Yes, a limitation of the survey is that the questions were phrased as "I have patients who have spoken with me about using AI to do x or y" (https://www.apa.org/pubs/reports/chatbots-mental-health-2026/survey-questionnaire.pdf) so we don't have any sense of whether this is 1-2 patients per psychologist, nearly all, or somewhere in between.
Interpreting the APA survey results is tricky because it seems to be something like "proportion of psychologists who report having at least one patient who ___." Based on my math, if each psychologist has about 20 patients, then it might only be like 7% of patients who have talked about using AI, which is a little surprising
Yes, a limitation of the survey is that the questions were phrased as "I have patients who have spoken with me about using AI to do x or y" (https://www.apa.org/pubs/reports/chatbots-mental-health-2026/survey-questionnaire.pdf) so we don't have any sense of whether this is 1-2 patients per psychologist, nearly all, or somewhere in between.