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Art Therapists
Plan or conduct art therapy sessions or programs to improve clients' physical, cognitive, or emotional well-being.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Conduct art therapy sessions, providing guided self-expression experiences to help clients recover from, or cope with, cognitive, emotional, or physical impairments.Mostly human for now
- 02Talk with clients during art or other therapy sessions to build rapport, acknowledge their progress, or reflect upon their reactions to the artistic process.Mostly human for now
- 03Write treatment plans, case summaries, or progress or other reports related to individual clients or client groups.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Assess client needs or disorders, using drawing, painting, sculpting, or other artistic processes.Mostly human for now
- 05Design art therapy sessions or programs to meet client's goals or objectives.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Observe and document client reactions, progress, or other outcomes related to art therapy.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Develop individualized treatment plans that incorporate studio art therapy, counseling, or psychotherapy techniques.Mostly human for now
- 08Establish goals or objectives for art therapy sessions in consultation with clients or site administrators.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Select or prepare artistic media or related equipment or devices to accomplish therapy session objectives.Mostly human for now
- 10Communicate client assessment findings and recommendations in oral, written, audio, video, or other forms.People already use AI for this at work
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss4%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
30%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 29% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 38% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Conduct art therapy sessions, providing guided self-expression experiences to help clients recover from, or cope with, cognitive, emotional, or physical impairments.
- Talk with clients during art or other therapy sessions to build rapport, acknowledge their progress, or reflect upon their reactions to the artistic process.
- Assess client needs or disorders, using drawing, painting, sculpting, or other artistic processes.