Psychiatric Technicians
SOC Code: 29-2053
Psychiatric Technicianss provide nursing, psychiatric, or personal care to patients with cognitive, intellectual, or developmental disabilities. This career typically requires medium preparation (1-2 years). With an AI-proof score of 87.8/100, this role has high resilience to automation. Key skills include Social Perceptiveness, Social Perceptiveness, Monitoring.
AI-Proof Score: 87.8 — Very High
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Median Salary
$42,590
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Job Growth
20.0%
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Training Time
Medium preparation (1-2 years)
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Job Zone
Zone 3 / 5
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Training Cost
~$15,000
Key Skills
- •Social Perceptiveness
- •Monitoring
- •Active Listening
- •Reading Comprehension
- •Coordination
- •Speaking
Common Tasks
- ✓Provide nursing, psychiatric, or personal care to patients with cognitive, intellectual, or developmental disabilities.
- ✓Encourage patients to develop work skills and to participate in social, recreational, or other therapeutic activities that enhance interpersonal skills or develop social relationships.
- ✓Restrain violent, potentially violent, or suicidal patients by verbal or physical means as required.
- ✓Lead prescribed individual or group therapy sessions as part of specific therapeutic procedures.
- ✓Monitor patients' physical and emotional well-being and report unusual behavior or physical ailments to medical staff.
Training & Resources
Why AI-Proof?
- ✅Requires hands-on physical presence and dexterity
- ✅Demands human empathy, judgment, and trust
- ✅Operates in unpredictable, variable environments
- ✅Social and regulatory barriers to full automation