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Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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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)