AI Prompting for Clinicians

Description

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of the mental health landscape—but knowing that AI exists is very different from knowing how to use it effectively, ethically, and responsibly.

AI Prompting for Clinicians: A Practical, Ethical Guide to Using Generative AI in Mental Health Practice, Supervision, and Training by Dr. Ariesha Murray was created for mental health professionals who want practical guidance without having to become technology experts.

Written in accessible, clinician-centered language, this hands-on guide shows you how to communicate with generative AI more intentionally while maintaining professional boundaries, confidentiality, ethical responsibility, and clinical judgment. Rather than positioning AI as a replacement for professional expertise, the book teaches clinicians to use it as a structured support tool—and to carefully review its work.

At the center of the book is Dr. Murray’s A.N.C.H.O.R. Prompting Framework, a structured approach created specifically for clinical use. You’ll learn how to identify the Audience, Need, Context, House Style/Format, Off-Limits parameters, and Review Instruction needed to create clearer, safer, and more useful AI prompts.

Throughout the guide, you’ll discover practical applications for using AI to support clinical documentation, case conceptualization and supervision, client-facing psychoeducation, training simulations, skill-building, practice growth, and content development. You’ll also explore critical issues surrounding confidentiality, bias, cultural responsiveness, professional standards, and responsible review of AI-generated material.

The book also includes a Quick-Reference Prompt Library, giving clinicians practical prompts they can adapt for documentation, case conceptualization, psychoeducation, training simulations, bias checks, and practice growth.

Whether you’re a counselor, therapist, social worker, clinical supervisor, counselor educator, behavioral health professional, or clinician-in-training, AI Prompting for Clinicians can help you move beyond simply experimenting with AI toward developing a thoughtful and sustainable approach to using it in professional practice.

You don’t need to become a technology expert. You need to know how to give AI context, establish boundaries, evaluate its output, and keep yourself—not the technology—in the position of clinical authority.

Technology with a purpose. People always.