From assistant clinical psychologist to psychotherapist
12 of the 73 essential skills of a psychotherapist are already essential for a assistant clinical psychologist — about 16% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 12
- skills carry over
- 61
- would be new
- 16%
- of the target job covered
- 73
- essential skills of a psychotherapist
What a psychotherapist does
Psychotherapists assist and treat healthcare users with varying degrees of psychological, psychosocial, or psychosomatic behavioural disorders and pathogenic conditions by means of psychotherapeutic methods. They promote personal development and well-being and provide advice on improving relationships, capabilities, and problem-solving techniques. They use science-based psychotherapeutic methods such as behavioural therapy, existential analysis and logotherapy, psychoanalysis or systemic family therapy in order to guide the patients in their development and help them search for appropriate solutions to their problems. Psychotherapists are not required to have academic degrees in psychology or a medical qualification in psychiatry. It is an independent occupation from psychology, psychiatry, and counselling.
What carries over
12 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- apply context specific clinical competences
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- decide upon a psychotherapeutic approach
- identify mental health issues
- psychiatry
- psychological diagnostics
- psychology
- therapy in health care
- work with patterns of psychological behaviour
What would be new
61 skillsEssential for a psychotherapist and not for a assistant clinical psychologist. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- body language
- clinical social work
- communicate in healthcare
- conceptualise healthcare user’s needs
- conclude the psychotherapeutic relationship
- conditions for the professional practice of psychotherapy
- conduct psychotherapy risk assessments
- contribute to continuity of health care
- counsel clients
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- diagnose psychiatric symptoms
- discuss the end point of therapeutic intervention
- disorders affecting self-awareness
- empathise with the healthcare user
- encourage healthcare user's self-monitoring
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- evaluate practice in psychotherapy
- follow clinical guidelines
- formulate a case conceptualisation model for therapy
- handle patient trauma
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- historic development of psychotherapeutic schools
- history of patient's psychotherapeutic problems
- interact with healthcare users
- keep up with current trends in psychotherapy
- listen actively
- maintain personal development in psychotherapy
- manage healthcare users' data
- manage personal professional development
- manage psychotherapeutic relationships
- monitor therapeutic progress
- organise relapse prevention
- perform therapy sessions
- personality development theories
- prescribe psychotherapeutic treatment
- promote mental health
- promote psycho-social education
- provide a psychotherapeutic environment
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
and 21 more
Other moves from assistant clinical psychologist
2 roles- clinical psychologist19 skills in common
- health psychologist15 skills in common
← assistant clinical psychologistpsychotherapist →The other way round
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How far are you from being a psychotherapist?
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