Confer with clients to discuss treatment plans or progress.

Confer with clients to discuss treatment plans or progress. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 9 occupations and seen in 9 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Explain medical information to patients or family members. in Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others .

Detailed work activities are the most granular shared layer in O*NET's work-activity hierarchy (Generalized → Intermediate → Detailed → occupation-specific task). The figures below describe how this activity shows up across the economy and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the work will be automated.

AI exposure

Of the 8 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 5 (63%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

Exposure estimates overlap with model capabilities — whether a model could speed the task up — not whether the work will be done by software. Observed AI use is augmentation and assistance today, not jobs replaced.

Member tasks

Occupation-specific tasks O*NET maps to this detailed work activity, most important first.

• Educate clients about end-of-life symptoms and options to assist them in making informed decisions. · Healthcare Social Workers · importance 4.6 · no direct exposure
• Confer with clients to discuss their options and goals so that rehabilitation programs and plans for accessing needed services can be developed. · Rehabilitation Counselors · importance 4.4 · no direct exposure
• Develop and review service plans in consultation with clients and perform follow-ups assessing the quantity and quality of services provided. · Child, Family, and School Social Workers · importance 4.3 · exposure with tools
• Confer with clients to develop plans for posttreatment activities. · Marriage and Family Therapists · importance 4.0 · no direct exposure
• Advise pet owners on how to care for their pets' health. · Animal Caretakers · importance 4.0 · exposure with tools
• Contact clients in person, by phone, or in writing to ensure they have completed required or recommended actions. · Community Health Workers · importance 3.8 · exposure with tools
• Identify and communicate risks associated with specific neurological surgical procedures, such as epilepsy surgery. · Clinical Neuropsychologists · importance 3.8 · exposure with tools
• Advise patients to comply with treatment plans. · 29-1023.00
• Design and explain treatment plans, based on patient information such as medical history, reports, and examination results. · Cardiologists · exposure with tools

Occupations that perform this

• Healthcare Social Workers
• Rehabilitation Counselors
• Child, Family, and School Social Workers
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Animal Caretakers
• Clinical Neuropsychologists
• Community Health Workers
• 29-1023.00
• Cardiologists

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-confer-with-clients-to-discuss-treatment-plans-or-progress,
  title  = {Confer with clients to discuss treatment plans or progress.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/detailed-activities/confer-with-clients-to-discuss-treatment-plans-or-progress}
}