# Examining Spanish Counseling with MIDAS: a Motivational Interviewing Dataset in Spanish

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08458 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.08458/

## Key facts

- Cited by 4 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 8 of its 38 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 12 Feb 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 8 of 8)

- [BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.04805/) (2018)
- [PsyQA: A Chinese Dataset for Generating Long Counseling Text for Mental Health Support](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.01702/) (2021)
- [Spanish Pre-trained BERT Model and Evaluation Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.02976/) (2023)
- [A Computational Framework for Behavioral Assessment of LLM Therapists](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.00820/) (2024)
- [Interactive Agents: Simulating Counselor-Client Psychological Counseling via Role-Playing LLM-to-LLM Interactions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.15787/) (2024)
- [LLM-based Conversational AI Therapist for Daily Functioning Screening and Psychotherapeutic Intervention via Everyday Smart Devices](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.10779/) (2024)
- [EmpathBERT: A BERT-based Framework for Demographic-aware Empathy Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.00272/) (2021)
- [pysentimiento: A Python Toolkit for Opinion Mining and Social NLP tasks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.09462/) (2021)

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- [MIRROR: Multimodal Cognitive Reframing Therapy for Rolling with Resistance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.13211/) (2025)
- [EmoTrack: Clinical-Semantic Modeling for Text-Based Depression Severity Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.22286/) (2026)
- [LongCounsel-8: A Benchmark Suite for Longitudinal Depression Tracking from Multi-Session Counseling Dialogues](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.03507/) (2026)
- [From Pattern Recognizers to Personalized Companions: A Survey of Large Language Models in Mental Health](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.25186/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Cultural and language factors significantly influence counseling, but Natural Language Processing research has not yet examined whether the findings of conversational analysis for counseling conducted in English apply to other languages. This paper presents a first step towards this direction. We introduce MIDAS (Motivational Interviewing Dataset in Spanish), a counseling dataset created from public video sources that contains expert annotations for counseling reflections and questions. Using this dataset, we explore language-based differences in counselor behavior in English and Spanish and develop classifiers in monolingual and multilingual settings, demonstrating its applications in counselor behavioral coding tasks.