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Community & Social Services · Updated Aug 2026

Marriage and Family Therapists

Diagnose and treat mental and emotional disorders, whether cognitive, affective, or behavioral, within the context of marriage and family systems. Apply psychotherapeutic and family systems theories and techniques in the delivery of services to individuals, couples, and families for the purpose of treating such diagnosed nervous and mental disorders.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
AI Exposure
67/100
High

How much of this occupation’s work can be materially affected by current AI systems.

Replacement Risk
59/100
Moderate

How likely exposure is to translate into reduced human demand.

Includes provisional estimates for AI adoption pressure and labour-market resilience. How this is measured

Evidence quality
Confidence82/100
Task coverage87%

Confidence reflects task coverage, mapping and capability-evidence quality, and how much of the score rests on provisional inputs.

Task-level evidence

What is driving the score?

Occupation scores are built from the task mix—not a single prediction about a job title.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
TaskImportanceAI impactExposure
Encourage individuals and family members to develop and use skills and strategies for confronting their problems in a constructive manner.High
73
Maintain case files that include activities, progress notes, evaluations, and recommendations.High
74
Ask questions that will help clients identify their feelings and behaviors.High
60
Develop and implement individualized treatment plans addressing family relationship problems, destructive patterns of behavior, and other personal issues.High
73
Counsel clients on concerns, such as unsatisfactory relationships, divorce and separation, child rearing, home management, or financial difficulties.High
63
Collect information about clients, using techniques such as testing, interviewing, discussion, or observation.High
61
Confer with other counselors, doctors, and professionals to analyze individual cases and to coordinate counseling services.Medium
69
Confer with clients to develop plans for posttreatment activities.High
69
Provide instructions to clients on how to obtain help with legal, financial, and other personal issues.Medium
70
Determine whether clients should be counseled or referred to other specialists in such fields as medicine, psychiatry, or legal aid.Medium
57
Most exposed

Where AI can do more

Routine, digitized, and highly repeatable tasks face the greatest pressure.

  1. Maintain case files that include activities, progress notes, evaluations, and recommendations.74
  2. Encourage individuals and family members to develop and use skills and strategies for confronting their problems in a constructive manner.73
  3. Develop and implement individualized treatment plans addressing family relationship problems, destructive patterns of behavior, and other personal issues.73
  4. Provide instructions to clients on how to obtain help with legal, financial, and other personal issues.70
Hardest to automate

Where people still matter

These tasks score lowest on automation feasibility—physical presence, judgement, accountability and real-world variability all resist end-to-end automation.

  1. Encourage individuals and family members to develop and use skills and strategies for confronting their problems in a constructive manner.01
  2. Maintain case files that include activities, progress notes, evaluations, and recommendations.02
  3. Ask questions that will help clients identify their feelings and behaviors.03
  4. Develop and implement individualized treatment plans addressing family relationship problems, destructive patterns of behavior, and other personal issues.04
  5. Counsel clients on concerns, such as unsatisfactory relationships, divorce and separation, child rearing, home management, or financial difficulties.05
Where else this work leads

Related occupations

Occupations O*NET links to this one. Relatedness reflects shared work, not a claim that these roles are safer.

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Beyond AI capability

Adoption and labour-market outlook

Structural factors are kept separate from raw capability so you can see what actually resists automation. Adoption pressure and labour-market resilience are still provisional models—25% of this occupation’s replacement-risk weight rests on them.

Human dependency59
Physical dependency25
Adoption pressure48
Labour-market resilience60
Methodology & sources

O*NET 30.3 occupational data interpreted through the JobsVsAI capability, automation and structural-constraint models.

Confidence82/100
CalculatedAug 21, 2026
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