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O*NET detailed work activityCounsel clients or patients regarding personal issues
Stays humanBe there for people
10 jobs13 tasks
This depends on human connection: empathy, trust, being physically present and responding to someone in real time. People can tell the difference.
Part of Counsel others about personal matters, under the O*NET work activity group Providing Consultation and Advice to Others. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 13 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Encourage clients to express their feelings and discuss what is happening in their lives, helping them to develop insight into themselves or their relationships.
- Ask questions that will help clients identify their feelings and behaviors.
- Counsel individuals or groups concerning their spiritual, emotional, or personal needs.
- Instruct people who seek conversion to a particular faith.
- Discuss with individual patients their plans for life after leaving therapy.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Provide guidance to patients on exercises they can perform to improve mobility.
- Counsel clients in individual or group sessions to assist them in dealing with substance abuse, mental or physical illness, poverty, unemployment, or physical abuse.
- Counsel individuals or groups to help them understand and overcome personal, social, or behavioral problems affecting their educational or vocational situations.
- Educate clients about end-of-life symptoms and options to assist them in making informed decisions.
- Counsel individuals regarding interpersonal, health, financial, or religious problems.
- Provide family counseling and treatment services to inmates participating in substance abuse programs.
- Lead group counseling sessions that provide support in such areas as grief, stress, or chemical dependency.
- Provide clinical services to clients, such as assessing psychological problems and conducting psychotherapy.