Preparing individuals for employment in careers that relate to families and human needs such as counseling and mental health services, family and community services, personal care and consumer services.

Advise and educate individuals or organizations on acquiring and managing debt. May provide guidance in determining the best type of loan and explain loan requirements or restrictions. May help develop debt management plans or student financial aid packages. May advise on credit issues, or provide budget, mortgage, bankruptcy, or student financial aid counseling.

Credit Counselors

Provide clients with consulting services surrounding debt management advice and solutions. Help clients to achieve their best capital performance and meet their strategic corporate objectives. May provide advice on capital management planning, funding options, acquisition funding and strategy, credit rating evaluation and advisory, and benchmarking.

Debt Advisory Consultants

Consumer Services

Design, execute, and publish study results to help understand how humans interact with intelligent systems. Apply relevant base knowledge in cognitive psychology, visual perception, computer science or engineering, or uncertainty quantification and communication.

Neuropsychologists

Applied Cognition Specialists

Diagnose or evaluate mental and emotional disorders of individuals through observation, interview, and psychological tests, and formulate and administer programs of treatment.

Clinical and Counseling Psychologists

Clinical Psychologists

Assess and evaluate individuals' problems through the use of case history, interview, and observation and provide individual or group counseling services to assist individuals in achieving more effective personal, social, educational, and vocational development and adjustment.

Counseling Psychologists

Study the behavior of criminals and address a range of issues from psychological theories to legal issues. Conduct screenings or assessments of prisoners, investigate psychological disorders among criminal and civil court defendants, and examine the mental state of criminals and offenders to determine if they are able to stand trial.

Psychologists, All Other

Forensic Psychologists

Apply principles of psychology to human resources, administration, management, sales, and marketing problems. Activities may include policy planning; employee testing and selection, training, and development; and organizational development and analysis. May work with management to organize the work setting to improve worker productivity.

Industrial-Organizational Psychologists

Help clients set clear objectives for their personal development and help them achieve their goals and personal vision. Provide counseling and guidance and establish progress reports to keep track of clients' achievements.

Counselors, All Other

Life Coaches

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.

Marriage and Family Therapists

Assess and treat individuals with mental, emotional, or substance abuse problems, including abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and/or other drugs. Activities may include individual and group therapy, crisis intervention, case management, client advocacy, prevention, and education.

Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers

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.

Mental Health Counselors

Apply theories and principles of neuropsychology to diagnose and treat disorders of higher cerebral functioning.

Neuropsychologists and Clinical Neuropsychologists

Counsel individuals to maximize the independence and employability of persons coping with personal, social, and vocational difficulties that result from birth defects, illness, disease, accidents, aging, or the stress of daily life. Coordinate activities for residents of care and treatment facilities. Assess client needs and design and implement rehabilitation programs that may include personal and vocational counseling, training, and job placement.

Rehabilitation Counselors

Diagnose and implement individual or schoolwide interventions or strategies to address educational, behavioral, or developmental issues that adversely impact educational functioning in a school. May address student learning and behavioral problems and counsel students or families. May design and implement performance plans, and evaluate performance. May consult with other school-based personnel.

School Psychologists

Counsel and advise individuals with alcohol, tobacco, drug, or other problems, such as gambling and eating disorders. May counsel individuals, families, or groups or engage in prevention programs.

Substance Abuse and Behavioral Disorder Counselors

Counseling & Mental Health Services

Attend to children at schools, businesses, private households, and childcare institutions. Perform a variety of tasks, such as dressing, feeding, bathing, and overseeing play.

Childcare Workers

Care for children in private households and provide support and expertise to parents in satisfying children's physical, emotional, intellectual, and social needs. Duties may include meal planning and preparation, laundry and clothing care, organization of play activities and outings, discipline, intellectual stimulation, language activities, and transportation.

Nannies

Early Childhood Development & Services

Provide social services and assistance to improve the social and psychological functioning of children and their families and to maximize the family well-being and the academic functioning of children. May assist parents, arrange adoptions, and find foster homes for abandoned or abused children. In schools, they address such problems as teenage pregnancy, misbehavior, and truancy. May also advise teachers.

Child, Family, and School Social Workers

Conduct religious worship and perform other spiritual functions associated with beliefs and practices of religious faith or denomination. Provide spiritual and moral guidance and assistance to members.

Clergy

Promote health within a community by assisting individuals to adopt healthy behaviors. Serve as an advocate for the health needs of individuals by assisting community residents in effectively communicating with healthcare providers or social service agencies. Act as liaison or advocate and implement programs that promote, maintain, and improve individual and overall community health. May deliver health-related preventive services such as blood pressure, glaucoma, and hearing screenings. May collect data to help identify community health needs.

Community Health Workers

Develop and implement policies to improve and promote cultural activities and events. Manage resources and communicate with the public and media to facilitate interest in cultural programs and emphasise their importance in a community.

Community and Social Service Specialists, All Other

Cultural Policy Officers

Plan, direct, or coordinate programs and conduct outreach to promote the religious education or activities of a denominational group. May provide counseling, guidance, and leadership relative to marital, health, financial, and religious problems.

Directors, Religious Activities and Education

Conduct research, produce reports and administer elementary, secondary and post-secondary education policies and programs.

Education Policy Officers

Provide and manage health education programs that help individuals, families, and their communities maximize and maintain healthy lifestyles. Use data to identify community needs prior to planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating programs designed to encourage healthy lifestyles, policies, and environments. May link health systems, health providers, insurers, and patients to address individual and population health needs. May serve as resource to assist individuals, other health professionals, or the community, and may administer fiscal resources for health education programs.

Health Education Specialists

Health Educators

Provide individuals, families, and groups with the psychosocial support needed to cope with chronic, acute, or terminal illnesses. Services include advising family caregivers. Provide patients with information and counseling, and make referrals for other services. May also provide case and care management or interventions designed to promote health, prevent disease, and address barriers to access to healthcare.

Healthcare Social Workers

Research, analyze, develop, and administer housing policies. Implement these policies to improve the housing situation by measures such as building affordable housing, supporting people to buy real estate, and improving conditions in existing housing.

Housing Policy Officers

Advise on strategies to reduce the impact of humanitarian crises on a national and/or international level. Provide professional advice and support in collaboration with different partners.

Humanitarian Advisors

Research, analyze, develop, and administer regional development policies. Implement policies to reduce regional disparities by fostering economic activities in a region and structural changes such as supporting multi-level governance, rural development, and improvement of infrastructure.

Regional Development Policy Officers

Impart the teachings of their faith through prayer, events, activities, and mission excursions. Provide religious support and counselling for those in need.

Religious Workers, All Other

Religious Workers

Plan, direct, or coordinate the activities of a social service program or community outreach organization. Oversee the program or organization's budget and policies regarding participant involvement, program requirements, and benefits. Work may involve directing social workers, counselors, or probation officers.

Social and Community Service Managers

Assist other social and human service providers in providing client services in a wide variety of fields, such as psychology, rehabilitation, or social work, including support for families. May assist clients in identifying and obtaining available benefits and social and community services. May assist social workers with developing, organizing, and conducting programs to prevent and resolve problems relevant to substance abuse, human relationships, rehabilitation, or dependent care.

Social and Human Service Assistants

Provide advice and strategic guidance to aid in the development of policy and procedures for social service programs. Research social service programs and identify areas for improvement. Fulfil advisory functions for social service organizations.

Social Workers, All Other

Social Service Consultants

Research, analyze, and develop social services policies and implement them. Work in the administration of social services and provide organizations and other stakeholders with regular updates.

Social Services Policy Officers

Family & Community Services

Provide barbering services, such as cutting, trimming, shampooing, and styling hair; trimming beards; or giving shaves.

Barbers

Prepare bodies for interment in conformity with legal requirements.

Embalmers

Instruct or coach groups or individuals in exercise activities for the primary purpose of personal fitness. Demonstrate techniques and form, observe participants, and explain to them corrective measures necessary to improve their skills. Develop and implement individualized approaches to exercise.

Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors

Fitness Trainers and Aerobics Instructors

Perform a variety of tasks during funeral, such as placing casket in parlor or chapel prior to service, arranging floral offerings or lights around casket, directing or escorting mourners, closing casket, and issuing and storing funeral equipment.

Funeral Attendants

Plan, direct, or coordinate the services or resources of funeral homes. Includes activities such as determining prices for services or merchandise and managing the facilities of funeral homes.

Funeral Home Managers

Provide beauty services, such as cutting, coloring, and styling hair, and massaging and treating scalp. May shampoo hair, apply makeup, dress wigs, remove hair, and provide nail and skincare services.

Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists

Operate or tend washing or dry-cleaning machines to wash or dry-clean industrial or household articles, such as cloth garments, suede, leather, furs, blankets, draperies, linens, rugs, and carpets. Includes spotters and dyers of these articles.

Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers

Provide personal items to patrons or customers in locker rooms, dressing rooms, or coatrooms.

Locker Room, Coatroom, and Dressing Room Attendants

Clean and shape customers' fingernails and toenails. May polish or decorate nails.

Manicurists and Pedicurists

Perform therapeutic massages of soft tissues and joints. May assist in the assessment of range of motion and muscle strength, or propose client therapy plans.

Massage Therapists

Perform various tasks to arrange individual funeral services, such as coordinating transportation of body to mortuary, interviewing family or other authorized person to arrange details, selecting pallbearers, aiding with the selection of officials for religious rites, and providing transportation for mourners.

Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers

Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Directors

Provide personalized assistance to individuals with disabilities or illness who require help with personal care and activities of daily living support (e.g., feeding, bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, and ambulation). May also provide help with tasks such as preparing meals, doing light housekeeping, and doing laundry. Work is performed in various settings depending on the needs of the care recipient and may include locations such as their home, place of work, out in the community, or at a daytime nonresidential facility.

Personal Care Aides

Supervise and coordinate activities of personal service workers.

First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers

Personal Services Managers

Press or shape articles by hand or machine.

Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials

Coordinate activities in resident facilities in secondary school and college dormitories, group homes, or similar establishments. Order supplies and determine need for maintenance, repairs, and furnishings. May maintain household records and assign rooms. May assist residents with problem solving or refer them to counseling resources.

Residential Advisors

Provide skincare treatments to face and body to enhance an individual's appearance. Includes electrologists and laser hair removal specialists.

Skincare Specialists

Design, make, alter, repair, or fit garments.

Tailors, Dressmakers, and Custom Sewers