profession file · read as its task mix
mostly human ground
Psychotherapist
psychology
Psychotherapists hold regular sessions with clients, listening for patterns, building trust and working through difficulties over months. AI currently touches the edges of the practice, session notes, scheduling and between-session support apps, while the therapeutic relationship itself is the substance of the work.
The exposed part of the week
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The full mix
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Safer ground: build these
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Empathy
understand & share feelings of others
Emotional intelligence
understanding other people & how they feel
Responsibility & ethics
acting for the benefit of society at large
Social competence
communicating, cooperating & understanding others
Critical thinking
reasoning independently, informed by evidence
Metacognition
understanding & perceiving your own thought
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