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O*NET detailed work activityEncourage patients or clients to develop life skills
Stays humanBe there for people
3 jobs3 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 Provide support or encouragement to others, under the O*NET work activity group Developing and Building Teams. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 3 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Encourage patients to develop work skills and to participate in social, recreational, or other therapeutic activities that enhance interpersonal skills or develop social relationships.
- Encourage clients with special needs and circumstances to acquire new skills and get involved in health-promoting leisure activities, such as sports, games, arts and crafts, and gardening.
- Provide patients with assistance in locating or holding jobs.