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O*NET detailed work activityInteract with patients to build rapport or provide emotional support
Stays humanBe there for people
8 jobs8 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, 8 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Talk with clients during art or other therapy sessions to build rapport, acknowledge their progress, or reflect upon their reactions to the artistic process.
- Communicate with clients to build rapport, acknowledge their progress, or reflect upon their reactions to musical experiences.
- Educate, prepare, and reassure patients and their families by answering questions, providing physical assistance, and reinforcing physicians' advice regarding treatment reactions or post-treatment care.
- Comfort and reassure patients.
- Advocate for patients' and families' needs, or provide emotional support for patients and their families.
- Observe and influence patients' behavior, communicating and interacting with them and teaching, counseling, or befriending them.
- Comfort and reassure patients.