Provide public education and consultation to other professionals or groups regarding counseling services, issues, and methods.

“Provide public education and consultation to other professionals or groups regarding counseling services, issues, and methods.” is a core task performed by Marriage and Family Therapists. Among the occupation's 16 rated tasks, workers place it 4th by importance (#13 most important). About 73% 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.

• Provide information or assistance to the public. in Communicating with People Outside the Organization
• Teach academic or vocational subjects. in Training and Teaching Others
• Advise others on educational or vocational matters. in Providing Consultation and Advice to 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.

How AI is actually used on this kind of task

The Anthropic Economic Index observes how people actually use AI on tasks like this one across millions of real conversations.

• 0.013% share of AI-use records mapped to this task
• 25% of that use is work-related
• Most common interaction: learning
• Average autonomy of the AI: 3.7 (1–5; higher = more autonomous)
• 94% of interactions still needed a human in the loop

Observed AI use describes people choosing to use AI as a tool on this kind of task today. It is augmentation and assistance, not a measure of jobs replaced.

Working with AI vs. handing it off

Of the AI conversations mapped to this task, the split between people working alongside AI and people delegating the task to it.

How people interact with AI on this task

Other tasks in this occupation

• Encourage individuals and family members to develop and use skills and strategies for confronting their problems in a constructive manner. · importance 4.8
• Ask questions that will help clients identify their feelings and behaviors. · importance 4.7
• Develop and implement individualized treatment plans addressing family relationship problems, destructive patterns of behavior, and other personal issues. · importance 4.6
• Maintain case files that include activities, progress notes, evaluations, and recommendations. · importance 4.6
• Counsel clients on concerns, such as unsatisfactory relationships, divorce and separation, child rearing, home management, or financial difficulties. · importance 4.5
• Collect information about clients, using techniques such as testing, interviewing, discussion, or observation. · importance 4.5
• Confer with clients to develop plans for posttreatment activities. · importance 4.0
• Confer with other counselors, doctors, and professionals to analyze individual cases and to coordinate counseling services. · importance 4.0
• Determine whether clients should be counseled or referred to other specialists in such fields as medicine, psychiatry, or legal aid. · importance 4.0
• Follow up on results of counseling programs and clients' adjustments to determine effectiveness of programs. · importance 3.5
• Supervise other counselors, social service staff, and assistants. · importance 3.4
• Provide instructions to clients on how to obtain help with legal, financial, and other personal issues. · importance 3.4
• Gather information from doctors, schools, social workers, juvenile counselors, law enforcement personnel, and others to make recommendations to courts for resolution of child custody or visitation disputes. · importance 3.3
• Write evaluations of parents and children for use by courts deciding divorce and custody cases, testifying in court if necessary. · importance 3.2

See all tasks on the Marriage and Family 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
• 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-task-9196,
  title  = {Provide public education and consultation to other professionals or groups regarding counseling services, issues, and methods.},
  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/tasks/task-9196}
}