Interact with patients to build rapport or provide emotional support.

Interact with patients to build rapport or provide emotional support. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 7 occupations and seen in 8 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Provide support or encouragement to others. in Developing and Building Teams .

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, 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 2 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.007% 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.

• Communicate with clients to build rapport, acknowledge their progress, or reflect upon their reactions to musical experiences. · Music Therapists · importance 4.8 · no direct exposure
• Provide counseling to patient and family members by providing information, education, or reassurance. · Genetic Counselors · importance 4.7 · no direct exposure
• 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. · Radiation Therapists · importance 4.6 · no direct exposure
• Talk with clients during art or other therapy sessions to build rapport, acknowledge their progress, or reflect upon their reactions to the artistic process. · Art Therapists · importance 4.5 · no direct exposure
• Advocate for patients' and families' needs, or provide emotional support for patients and their families. · Critical Care Nurses · importance 4.4 · no direct exposure
• Observe and influence patients' behavior, communicating and interacting with them and teaching, counseling, or befriending them. · Psychiatric Technicians · importance 4.3 · no direct exposure
• Comfort and reassure patients. · Emergency Medical Technicians · no direct exposure
• Comfort and reassure patients. · Paramedics · no direct exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Music Therapists
• Genetic Counselors
• Radiation Therapists
• Critical Care Nurses
• Psychiatric Technicians
• Emergency Medical Technicians
• Paramedics

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  = {Interact with patients to build rapport or provide emotional support.},
  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},
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