Pai.ACT: AI-Driven ACT Chatbot for Mental Health Triage and Service Evaluation

"The Pai.ACT mobile app is an innovative therapeutic tool that utilizes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). It integrates a sophisticated AI algorithm to analyze self-reported data and conversation texts when the user interacts with the AI chatbot and identifies what psychological inflexibility processes are required to be the most essential to be addressed for process-matched ACT interventions. Following interactions with the AI chatbot, Pai.ACT provides a stratified mental health support, categorizing into three risk levels:~* Low-risk: Users access self-help ACT digital modules tailored to their specific psychological inflexibility processes.~* Moderate-risk: In addition to the self-help modules, users receive 4-6 sessions of video-conferencing-based ACT interventions (45-60 minutes per session) conducted by our trained counseling team.~* High-risk: Users are directed to specialized mental health services provided by collaborating units."

Both the Pai.ACT intervention group and the control group will receive standard family support through Hong Kong's family and children rehabilitation services, which are administered by government-funded units under the Social Welfare Department. Parents will participate in structured psychoeducation sessions focusing on positive parenting and will have access to peer support groups. Their children will receive individualized training plans tailored for neurodevelopmental conditions, in addition to referrals for speech and occupational therapy.