Mental Health Counselors
Community and Social Service Occupations- O*NET-SOC code
- 21-1014.00
Counsel and advise individuals and groups to promote optimum mental and emotional health, with an emphasis on prevention. May help individuals deal with a broad range of mental health issues, such as those associated with addictions and substance abuse; family, parenting, and marital problems; stress management; self-esteem; or aging.
AI exposure
- Data source: ILOPublished: 2025
0.28
0.09Range of values carried here0.70Group-level value
Scale, basis and source
Generative AI exposure index, 0–1 as published
Published per ISCO-08 unit group. Linked to this occupation, wholly or in part, by applying U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics crosswalks (ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC, 2010 SOC to 2018 SOC) as published
- Data source: OpenAIPublished: 2023
0.265
0.000Range of values carried here0.844Scale, basis and source
AI exposure (OpenAI rubric)
27 rated tasks · 12 tasks with β ≥ 0.5 (44.4%)
β = direct exposure (E1) + 0.5 × exposure when tools are available (E2), per the source repository's definition.
- Source unit: O*NET 27.2 tasks → O*NET 31.0 occupation code
- All rated tasks are in the O*NET 31.0 task list.
- Source
- OpenAI "GPTs are GPTs" exposure rubric
- Release
- gh-main-0471612
- License
- MIT License, Copyright (c) 2024 OpenAI
Tasks
Task statements from the O*NET® 31.0 Database, core tasks first.
| Task | Type | β (OpenAI) |
|---|---|---|
| Maintain confidentiality of records relating to clients' treatment. | Core | 0 |
| Encourage clients to express their feelings and discuss what is happening in their lives, helping them to develop insight into themselves or their relationships. | Core | 0 |
| Guide clients in the development of skills or strategies for dealing with their problems. | Core | 0 |
| Prepare and maintain all required treatment records and reports. | Core | 1 |
| Counsel clients or patients, individually or in group sessions, to assist in overcoming dependencies, adjusting to life, or making changes. | Core | 0 |
| Collect information about clients through interviews, observation, or tests. | Core | 0.5 |
| Act as client advocates to coordinate required services or to resolve emergency problems in crisis situations. | Core | 0 |
| Develop and implement treatment plans based on clinical experience and knowledge. | Core | 0.5 |
| Evaluate clients' physical or mental condition, based on review of client information. | Core | 0.5 |
| Meet with families, probation officers, police, or other interested parties to exchange necessary information during the treatment process. | Core | 0 |
| Refer patients, clients, or family members to community resources or to specialists as necessary. | Core | 0.5 |
| Counsel family members to assist them in understanding, dealing with, or supporting clients or patients. | Core | 0 |
| Evaluate the effectiveness of counseling programs on clients' progress in resolving identified problems and moving towards defined objectives. | Core | 0.5 |
| Plan, organize, or lead structured programs of counseling, work, study, recreation, or social activities for clients. | Core | 0 |
| Modify treatment activities or approaches as needed to comply with changes in clients' status. | Core | 0 |
| Learn about new developments in counseling by reading professional literature, attending courses and seminars, or establishing and maintaining contact with other social service agencies. | Core | 0.5 |
| Discuss with individual patients their plans for life after leaving therapy. | Core | 0 |
| Gather information about community mental health needs or resources that could be used in conjunction with therapy. | Core | 0.5 |
| Monitor clients' use of medications. | Core | 0 |
| Plan or conduct programs to prevent substance abuse or improve community health or counseling services. | Core | 0.5 |
| Assess patients for risk of suicide attempts. | Core | 0 |
| Fill out and maintain client-related paperwork, including federal- and state-mandated forms, client diagnostic records, and progress notes. | Core | 1 |
| Supervise other counselors, social service staff, assistants, or graduate students. | Core | 0 |
| Coordinate or direct employee workshops, courses, or training about mental health issues. | Core | 0.5 |
| Perform crisis interventions with clients. | Core | 0 |
| Perform crisis interventions to help ensure the safety of the patients and others. | Core | 0 |
| Collaborate with mental health professionals and other staff members to perform clinical assessments or develop treatment plans. | Core | 0.5 |
Occupation information
Sources and attribution
This page includes information from the O*NET® 31.0 Database (https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html) by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. AI Changing Work has modified all or some of this information: the O*NET-SOC code, title and task statements are reproduced in English without change; task-type labels are shown in the page's language and tasks are listed core first; any Korean occupation title shown on the Korean-language page is AI Changing Work's translation; any KSCO-8 unit groups linked to this occupation were paired with it by AI Changing Work's judgment, and the relation labels and statuses are AI Changing Work's additions. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.
Any AI exposure figures on this page are published by third parties, not by AI Changing Work, and none is part of the O*NET information. OpenAI publishes task-level scores (MIT License) for O*NET 27.2 task statements; each is shown next to the O*NET 31.0 task statement with the same task ID, whose wording can differ from the 27.2 statement that was scored. OpenAI also publishes occupation-level scores for O*NET-SOC codes in the same release, and any such score is shown on the O*NET occupation with the same code. Anthropic publishes an observed exposure index in the Anthropic Economic Index (CC-BY), and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes relative AI exposure categories (public domain); both are published per SOC code, and each value is shown on every O*NET occupation with that code. The International Labour Organization publishes a generative AI exposure index in ILO Working Paper 140 (CC BY 4.0) for ISCO-08 unit groups; AI Changing Work links those groups to O*NET occupations by applying the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC and 2010 SOC to 2018 SOC crosswalks as published, without case-by-case selection, and these crosswalks match many groups only in part. Where several unit groups are linked, each group's published value is listed, and any summary shows only the lowest and highest of those values with the number of groups; no exposure figure is averaged or recalculated. Any employment figures are published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for the SOC group containing this occupation. Each source is credited where its figures are shown.
O*NET OnLine: 21-1014.00 Mental Health Counselors
KSCO 코드·명칭: 한국표준직업분류(제8차 개정) — 통계청 고시 제2024-328호 (2024-07-01 고시, 2025-01-01 시행). 저작권법 제7조 제2호의 고시 항목이다. 명칭 표기(가운뎃점·띄어쓰기)는 해설서 2차 정오 반영판의 표기를 따랐으며, 고시 항목표와는 18개 명칭에서 가운뎃점 글리프나 띄어쓰기만 다르다. 통계청은 2025년 10월 국가데이터처로 개편되었다. 이 페이지의 KSCO 연결은 통계청·국가데이터처의 공식 연계표가 아니다.