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O*NET detailed work activityCounsel clients regarding interpersonal issues
Stays humanBe there for people
5 jobs7 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, 1 AI-assist, 6 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Counsel clients on concerns, such as unsatisfactory relationships, divorce and separation, child rearing, home management, or financial difficulties.
- Counsel parents with child rearing problems, interviewing the child and family to determine whether further action is required.
- Counsel individuals regarding interpersonal, health, financial, or religious problems.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Counsel inmates and respond to legitimate questions, concerns, and requests.
- Counsel individuals or groups to help them understand and overcome personal, social, or behavioral problems affecting their educational or vocational situations.
- Counsel individuals, groups, families, or communities regarding issues including mental health, poverty, unemployment, substance abuse, physical abuse, rehabilitation, social adjustment, child care, or medical care.
- Identify cases of domestic abuse or other family problems and encourage students or parents to seek additional assistance from mental health professionals.