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O*NET detailed work activityCounsel clients or patients with substance abuse issues
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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, 8 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Counsel clients or patients, individually or in group sessions, to assist in overcoming dependencies, adjusting to life, or making changes.
- Counsel clients or patients, individually or in group sessions, to assist in overcoming dependencies, adjusting to life, or making changes.
- Counsel clients in individual or group sessions to assist them in dealing with substance abuse, mental or physical illness, poverty, unemployment, or physical abuse.
- Discuss with offenders how such issues as drug and alcohol abuse and anger management problems might have played roles in their criminal behavior.
- Counsel clients and patients in individual and group sessions to help them overcome dependencies, recover from illness, and adjust to life.
- 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.