Develop patient therapy programs.

Develop patient therapy programs. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 3 occupations and seen in 4 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Develop patient or client care or treatment plans. in Thinking Creatively .

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 4 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 2 (50%) 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 1 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.003% 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.

• Select therapy activities to fit patients' needs and capabilities. · Occupational Therapy Assistants · importance 4.7 · exposure with tools
• Select or prepare speech-language instructional materials. · Speech-Language Pathology Assistants · importance 4.5 · exposure with tools
• Alter treatment programs to obtain better results if treatment is not having the intended effect. · Occupational Therapy Assistants · importance 4.5 · no direct exposure
• Develop and propose client treatment plans that specify which types of massage are to be used. · Massage Therapists · importance 4.4 · no direct exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Occupational Therapy Assistants
• Speech-Language Pathology Assistants
• Massage Therapists

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.

@misc{singulariki-develop-patient-therapy-programs,
  title  = {Develop patient therapy programs.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  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},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/detailed-activities/develop-patient-therapy-programs}
}