Parry, DVan Kessel, KOrr, M2025-06-052025-06-052022-07-182022-07-18Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology, pages 17-29. July 15, 2022. ISBN 978-1-955917-87-2 https://www.aclweb.org/http://hdl.handle.net/10292/19273Formulation is central to clinical practice. Formulation has a factor weighing, pattern recognition and explanatory hypothesis modelling focus. Formulation attempts to make sense of why a person presents in a certain state at a certain time and context, and how that state may be best managed to enhance mental health, safety and optimal change. Inherent to the clinical need for formulation is an appreciation of the complexities, uncertainty and limits of applying theoretical concepts and symptom, diagnostic and risk categories to human experience; or attaching meaning or weight to any particular factor in an individual’s history or mental state without considering the broader biopsychosocial and cultural context. With specific reference to suicide prevention, this paper considers the need and potential for the computational linguistics community to be both cognisant of and ethically contribute to the clinical formulation process.© 2022 Association for Computational Linguistics. This is the Author's Accepted Manuscript version of an article published in the Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology. (see Source).Conference ContributionOpenAccess