Conduct therapy sessions to improve patients' mental and physical well-being.

“Conduct therapy sessions to improve patients' mental and physical well-being.” is a core task performed by Recreational Therapists. Among the occupation's 11 rated tasks, workers place it 10th by importance (#2 most important). About 89% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Administer therapeutic treatments. in Assisting and Caring for Others

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T1.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Instruct patient in activities and techniques, such as sports, dance, music, art, or relaxation techniques, designed to meet their specific physical or psychological needs. · importance 4.6
• Plan, organize, direct, and participate in treatment programs and activities to facilitate patients' rehabilitation, help them integrate into the community, and prevent further medical problems. · importance 4.6
• Observe, analyze, and record patients' participation, reactions, and progress during treatment sessions, modifying treatment programs as needed. · importance 4.5
• Develop treatment plan to meet needs of patient, based on needs assessment, patient interests, and objectives of therapy. · importance 4.5
• Confer with members of treatment team to plan and evaluate therapy programs. · importance 4.5
• Obtain information from medical records, medical staff, family members and the patients, themselves, to assess patients' capabilities, needs and interests. · importance 4.5
• Counsel and encourage patients to develop leisure activities. · importance 4.4
• Encourage clients with special needs and circumstances to acquire new skills and get involved in health-promoting leisure activities, such as sports, games, arts and crafts, and gardening. · importance 4.4
• Prepare and submit reports and charts to treatment team to reflect patients' reactions and evidence of progress or regression. · importance 4.2
• Develop discharge plans for patients. · importance 4.0

See all tasks on the Recreational Therapists page.

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.

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  title  = {Conduct therapy sessions to improve patients' mental and physical well-being.},
  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/tasks/task-392}
}