# Competences — health psychologist

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/976c7f50-7f9e-4347-bbb9-f0dc842046a3).

## Essential

- **accept own accountability** (skill/competence)
- **adhere to organisational guidelines** (skill/competence)
- **advise on healthcare users' informed consent** (skill/competence)
- **advise on mental health** (skill/competence)
- **advise policy makers in healthcare** (skill/competence)
- **analyse health damaging behaviours** (skill/competence)
- **analyse large-scale data in healthcare** (skill/competence)
- **analyse processes influencing health care delivery** (skill/competence)
- **analyse psychological aspects of illness** (skill/competence)
- **apply context specific clinical competences** (skill/competence)
- **apply health psychological measures** (skill/competence)
- **apply organisational techniques** (skill/competence)
- **assess healthcare users' risk for harm** (skill/competence)
- **clinical reports** (knowledge)
- **comply with legislation related to health care** (skill/competence)
- **comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice** (skill/competence)
- **conditions for professional practice of health psychology** (knowledge)
- **conduct psychological assessement** (skill/competence)
- **consultation** (knowledge)
- **contribute to continuity of health care** (skill/competence)
- **counsel clients** (skill/competence)
- **counselling methods** (knowledge)
- **crisis intervention** (knowledge)
- **deal with emergency care situations** (skill/competence)
- **develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship** (skill/competence)
- **educate on the prevention of illness** (skill/competence)
- **emergency psychology** (knowledge)
- **empathise with the healthcare user** (skill/competence)
- **employ cognitive behaviour treatment techniques** (skill/competence)
- **encourage healthy behaviours** (skill/competence)
- **ensure safety of healthcare users** (skill/competence)
- **evaluate psychological health measures** (skill/competence)
- **evaluation of psychological performance** (knowledge)
- **first aid** (knowledge)
- **follow clinical guidelines** (skill/competence)
- **formulate a case conceptualisation model for therapy** (skill/competence)
- **health care occupation-specific ethics** (knowledge)
- **health psychology** (knowledge)
- **help healthcare users develop social perceptiveness** (skill/competence)
- **inform policy makers on health-related challenges** (skill/competence)
- **interact with healthcare users** (skill/competence)
- **interpret psychological tests** (skill/competence)
- **listen actively** (skill/competence)
- **manage health promotion activities** (skill/competence)
- **manage healthcare users' data** (skill/competence)
- **neurology** (knowledge)
- **perform therapy sessions** (skill/competence)
- **prescribe psychotherapeutic treatment** (skill/competence)
- **promote inclusion** (skill/competence)
- **promote psycho-social education** (skill/competence)
- **provide health counselling** (skill/competence)
- **provide health education** (skill/competence)
- **provide health psychological advice** (skill/competence)
- **provide health psychological analysis** (skill/competence)
- **provide health psychological concepts** (skill/competence)
- **provide health psychological diagnosis** (skill/competence)
- **provide health psychological treatment advice** (skill/competence)
- **provide psychological health assessment strategies** (skill/competence)
- **psychiatry** (knowledge)
- **psychological concepts** (knowledge)
- **psychological counselling methods** (knowledge)
- **psychological diagnostics** (knowledge)
- **psychological healthcare services** (knowledge)
- **psychological interventions** (knowledge)
- **psychological measures in working with other health care professionals** (knowledge)
- **psychological treatment measures** (knowledge)
- **psychology** (knowledge)
- **psychopathology** (knowledge)
- **psychopharmacology** (knowledge)
- **research design** (knowledge)
- **respond to changing situations in health care** (skill/competence)
- **respond to healthcare users' extreme emotions** (skill/competence)
- **support patients to understand their conditions** (skill/competence)
- **test for behavioural patterns** (skill/competence)
- **test for emotional patterns** (skill/competence)
- **therapy in health care** (knowledge)
- **use clinical assessment techniques** (skill/competence)
- **use e-health and mobile health technologies** (skill/competence)
- **use techniques to increase patients' motivation** (skill/competence)
- **work in a multicultural environment in health care** (skill/competence)
- **work in multidisciplinary health teams** (skill/competence)
- **work with patterns of psychological behaviour** (skill/competence)

## Optional

- apply a holistic approach in care (skill/competence)
- apply caseload management (skill/competence)
- diagnose mental disorders (skill/competence)
- diagnose psychiatric symptoms (skill/competence)
- experimental psychology (knowledge)
- occupational health (knowledge)
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health (skill/competence)
- psychosomatics (knowledge)
- sexual disorders (knowledge)
- use foreign languages for health-related research (skill/competence)
- use foreign languages in patient care (skill/competence)
- work on the effects of abuse (skill/competence)