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Psychiatric Technicians

Care for individuals with mental or emotional conditions or disabilities, following the instructions of physicians or other health practitioners. Monitor patients' physical and emotional well-being and report to medical staff. May participate in rehabilitation and treatment programs, help with personal hygiene, and administer oral or injectable medications.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
AI Exposure
63/100
High

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

Replacement Risk
58/100
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 coverage86%

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
Administer oral medications or hypodermic injections, following physician's prescriptions and hospital procedures.High
76
Provide nursing, psychiatric, or personal care to patients with cognitive, intellectual, or developmental disabilities.High
70
Encourage patients to develop work skills and to participate in social, recreational, or other therapeutic activities that enhance interpersonal skills or develop social relationships.High
69
Issue medications from dispensary and maintain records in accordance with specified procedures.High
76
Lead prescribed individual or group therapy sessions as part of specific therapeutic procedures.High
76
Monitor patients' physical and emotional well-being and report unusual behavior or physical ailments to medical staff.High
51
Collaborate with or assist doctors, psychologists, or rehabilitation therapists in working with patients with cognitive, intellectual, or developmental disabilities to treat, rehabilitate, and return patients to the community.High
68
Observe and influence patients' behavior, communicating and interacting with them and teaching, counseling, or befriending them.High
49
Take and record measures of patients' physical condition, using devices such as thermometers or blood pressure gauges.High
59
Develop or teach strategies to promote client wellness and independence.High
62
Restrain violent, potentially violent, or suicidal patients by verbal or physical means as required.High
62
Aid patients in performing tasks, such as bathing or keeping beds, clothing, or living areas clean.High
26
Most exposed

Where AI can do more

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

  1. Administer oral medications or hypodermic injections, following physician's prescriptions and hospital procedures.76
  2. Issue medications from dispensary and maintain records in accordance with specified procedures.76
  3. Lead prescribed individual or group therapy sessions as part of specific therapeutic procedures.76
  4. Provide nursing, psychiatric, or personal care to patients with cognitive, intellectual, or developmental disabilities.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. Aid patients in performing tasks, such as bathing or keeping beds, clothing, or living areas clean.01
  2. Observe and influence patients' behavior, communicating and interacting with them and teaching, counseling, or befriending them.02
  3. Monitor patients' physical and emotional well-being and report unusual behavior or physical ailments to medical staff.03
  4. Take and record measures of patients' physical condition, using devices such as thermometers or blood pressure gauges.04
  5. Develop or teach strategies to promote client wellness and independence.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 dependency51
Physical dependency43
Adoption pressure48
Labour-market resilience56
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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