health psychologist
ISCO: 2634. Skills: 94. Essential: 82.
Essential skills
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- advise on mental health
- advise policy makers in healthcare
- analyse health damaging behaviours
- analyse large-scale data in healthcare
- analyse processes influencing health care delivery
- analyse psychological aspects of illness
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply health psychological measures
- apply organisational techniques
- assess healthcare users' risk for harm
- clinical reports
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- conditions for professional practice of health psychology
- conduct psychological assessement
- consultation
- contribute to continuity of health care
- counsel clients
- counselling methods
- crisis intervention
- deal with emergency care situations
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- educate on the prevention of illness
- emergency psychology
- empathise with the healthcare user
- employ cognitive behaviour treatment techniques
- encourage healthy behaviours
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- evaluate psychological health measures
- evaluation of psychological performance
- first aid
- follow clinical guidelines
- formulate a case conceptualisation model for therapy
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- health psychology
- help healthcare users develop social perceptiveness
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interact with healthcare users
- interpret psychological tests
- listen actively
- manage health promotion activities
- manage healthcare users' data
- neurology
- perform therapy sessions
- prescribe psychotherapeutic treatment
- promote inclusion
- promote psycho-social education
- provide health counselling
- provide health education
- provide health psychological advice
- provide health psychological analysis
- provide health psychological concepts
- provide health psychological diagnosis
- provide health psychological treatment advice
- provide psychological health assessment strategies
- psychiatry
- psychological concepts
- psychological counselling methods
- psychological diagnostics
- psychological healthcare services
- psychological interventions
- psychological measures in working with other health care professionals
- psychological treatment measures
- psychology
- psychopathology
- psychopharmacology
- research design
- respond to changing situations in health care
- respond to healthcare users' extreme emotions
- support patients to understand their conditions
- test for behavioural patterns
- test for emotional patterns
- therapy in health care
- use clinical assessment techniques
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- use techniques to increase patients' motivation
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
- work with patterns of psychological behaviour
Supporting skills
- apply a holistic approach in care
- apply caseload management
- diagnose mental disorders
- diagnose psychiatric symptoms
- experimental psychology
- occupational health
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- psychosomatics
- sexual disorders
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- use foreign languages in patient care
- work on the effects of abuse