clinical social worker

Clinical social workers provide therapy, counselling, and intervention services to clients. They treat clients with personal struggles, namely mental illness, addiction, and abuse, advocating for them and helping them gain access to the necessary resources. They also focus on the impact of medical and public health issues within social aspects.

The most in-demand skills for this role include social work theory, legal requirements in the social sector, social sciences, clinical social work, health care system, social justice. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Our AI-durability model gives clinical social worker a score of 0.45 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.