Provide family counseling and treatment services to inmates participating in substance abuse programs.

“Provide family counseling and treatment services to inmates participating in substance abuse programs.” is a supplemental task performed by Marriage and Family Therapists. Among the occupation's 16 rated tasks, workers place it 1st by importance (#16 most important).

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.

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: T0.

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

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
• “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  = {Provide family counseling and treatment services to inmates participating in substance abuse programs.},
  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-9198}
}