Amod/mental_health_counseling_conversations

Dataset Summary

This dataset is a collection of real counselling question-and-answer pairs taken from two public mental-health platforms.
It is intended for training and evaluating language models that provide safer, context-aware mental-health responses.

Supported Tasks

Text generation and question-answering with an advice-giving focus.

Languages

English (en)

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

Each instance contains:

• Context – the user’s question
• Response – the psychologist’s answer

Data Fields

• Context :string
• Response :string

Data Splits

No predefined splits. Users may create their own.

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

Created to advance AI systems that deliver compassionate, evidence-based mental-health guidance.
All data were anonymised and retained verbatim to preserve conversational integrity.

Source Data

Collected directly from two publicly accessible counselling websites; no private or paid sources were used.

Personal and Sensitive Information

Content is sensitive by nature. All personally identifiable information has been removed during curation.

Licence and Commercial-Use Terms

This dataset is released under RAIL-D.

Free non-commercial research use
Academic, scientific, educational and other non-profit uses are royalty-free. Users must comply with the ethical restrictions in LICENSE-RAIL-D.txt.

Commercial use — mandatory donation
Any commercial use requires a donation of USD 100 or more to the CCC Foundation mental-health helpline.
Donation page: https://1333.lk/donations
Email proof of donation to amodsahabandu@icloud.com within thirty (30) days before or after first commercial deployment.
Commercial rights terminate automatically if proof is not provided.

No content modification
Filtering or subsetting is allowed, but individual question-and-answer pairs must not be rewritten, deleted, or altered.

Redistribution
Permitted only in the original, unmodified form and with this licence attached.

The full legal text is provided in LICENSE-RAIL-D.txt within this repository.