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O*NET detailed work activityProvide counsel, comfort, or encouragement to individuals or families
Stays humanBe there for people
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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, 13 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Pray and promote spirituality.
- Support children's emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts.
- Counsel inmates and respond to legitimate questions, concerns, and requests.
- Care for individuals or families during periods of incapacitation, family disruption, or convalescence, providing companionship, personal care, or help in adjusting to new lifestyles.
- Offer counsel and comfort to bereaved families or friends.
- Offer counsel and comfort to families and friends of the deceased.
- Inform survivors of benefits for which they may be eligible.
- Encourage participants to develop their own activities and leadership skills through group discussions.
- Provide advice to mourners on how to make charitable donations in honor of the deceased.
- Counsel students in the handling of issues such as family, financial, and educational problems.
- Offer counsel and comfort to bereaved families or friends.
- Attend to the needs of the bereaved, such as by offering comfort, counseling, or after-care programs.