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Marriage and Family Therapists
Diagnose and treat mental and emotional disorders, whether cognitive, affective, or behavioral, within the context of marriage and family systems. Apply psychotherapeutic and family systems theories and techniques in the delivery of services to individuals, couples, and families for the purpose of treating such diagnosed nervous and mental disorders.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Ask questions that will help clients identify their feelings and behaviors.Mostly human for now
- 02Encourage individuals and family members to develop and use skills and strategies for confronting their problems in a constructive manner.Mostly human for now
- 03Develop and implement individualized treatment plans addressing family relationship problems, destructive patterns of behavior, and other personal issues.Mostly human for now
- 04Maintain case files that include activities, progress notes, evaluations, and recommendations.AI could speed this up a lot
- 05Counsel clients on concerns, such as unsatisfactory relationships, divorce and separation, child rearing, home management, or financial difficulties.Mostly human for now
- 06Determine whether clients should be counseled or referred to other specialists in such fields as medicine, psychiatry, or legal aid.Mostly human for now
- 07Supervise other counselors, social service staff, and assistants.Mostly human for now
- 08Confer with other counselors, doctors, and professionals to analyze individual cases and to coordinate counseling services.Mostly human for now
- 09Diagnose mental and emotional disorders in clients.No rating yet
- 10Confer with clients to develop plans for posttreatment activities.Mostly human for now
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 lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
11%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 75% 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
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.
- Ask questions that will help clients identify their feelings and behaviors.
- Encourage individuals and family members to develop and use skills and strategies for confronting their problems in a constructive manner.
- Develop and implement individualized treatment plans addressing family relationship problems, destructive patterns of behavior, and other personal issues.