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Mental Health Counselors
Counsel and advise individuals and groups to promote optimum mental and emotional health, with an emphasis on prevention. May help individuals deal with a broad range of mental health issues, such as those associated with addictions and substance abuse; family, parenting, and marital problems; stress management; self-esteem; or aging.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Maintain confidentiality of records relating to clients' treatment.Mostly human for now
- 02Encourage clients to express their feelings and discuss what is happening in their lives, helping them to develop insight into themselves or their relationships.Mostly human for now
- 03Counsel clients or patients, individually or in group sessions, to assist in overcoming dependencies, adjusting to life, or making changes.Mostly human for now
- 04Perform crisis interventions to help ensure the safety of the patients and others.Mostly human for now
- 05Fill out and maintain client-related paperwork, including federal- and state-mandated forms, client diagnostic records, and progress notes.AI could speed this up a lot
- 06Assess patients for risk of suicide attempts.Mostly human for now
- 07Perform crisis interventions with clients.Mostly human for now
- 08Guide clients in the development of skills or strategies for dealing with their problems.Mostly human for now
- 09Prepare and maintain all required treatment records and reports.AI could speed this up a lot
- 10Develop and implement treatment plans based on clinical experience and knowledge.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
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 loss26%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
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.
- Maintain confidentiality of records relating to clients' treatment.
- Encourage clients to express their feelings and discuss what is happening in their lives, helping them to develop insight into themselves or their relationships.
- Counsel clients or patients, individually or in group sessions, to assist in overcoming dependencies, adjusting to life, or making changes.