Counsel clients or patients with substance abuse issues.

Counsel clients or patients with substance abuse issues. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 6 occupations and seen in 7 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Counsel others about personal matters. in Providing Consultation and Advice to 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 7 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 0 (0%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

The Anthropic Economic Index observes real AI use on 4 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.010% per task.

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.

• Counsel clients or patients, individually or in group sessions, to assist in overcoming dependencies, adjusting to life, or making changes. · Mental Health Counselors · importance 4.8 · no direct exposure
• Counsel clients or patients, individually or in group sessions, to assist in overcoming dependencies, adjusting to life, or making changes. · Substance Abuse and Behavioral Disorder Counselors · importance 4.7 · no direct exposure
• Counsel clients in individual or group sessions to assist them in dealing with substance abuse, mental or physical illness, poverty, unemployment, or physical abuse. · Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers · importance 4.5 · no direct exposure
• Discuss with offenders how such issues as drug and alcohol abuse and anger management problems might have played roles in their criminal behavior. · Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists · importance 4.4 · no direct exposure
• Counsel clients and patients in individual and group sessions to help them overcome dependencies, recover from illness, and adjust to life. · Healthcare Social Workers · importance 4.2 · no direct exposure
• 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. · Child, Family, and School Social Workers · importance 4.0 · no direct exposure
• Lead group counseling sessions that provide support in such areas as grief, stress, or chemical dependency. · Child, Family, and School Social Workers · importance 3.8 · no direct exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Mental Health Counselors
• Substance Abuse and Behavioral Disorder Counselors
• Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers
• Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists
• Healthcare Social Workers
• Child, Family, and School Social Workers

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
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

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

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  title  = {Counsel clients or patients with substance abuse issues.},
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  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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