From music therapist to clinical psychologist
31 of the 99 essential skills of a clinical psychologist are already essential for a music therapist — about 31% 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.
- 31
- skills carry over
- 68
- would be new
- 31%
- of the target job covered
- 99
- essential skills of a clinical psychologist
What a clinical psychologist does
Clinical psychologists diagnose, rehabilitate, and support individuals affected by mental, emotional, and behavioural disorders and problems as well as mental changes and pathogenic conditions through use of cognitive tools and appropriate intervention. They use clinical psychological resources on the basis of psychological science, its findings, theories, methods, and techniques for the investigation, interpretation, and prediction of human experience and behaviour.
What carries over
31 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- accept own accountability
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply organisational techniques
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- contribute to continuity of health care
- deal with emergency care situations
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- educate on the prevention of illness
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- follow clinical guidelines
- formulate a case conceptualisation model for therapy
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- manage healthcare users' data
- neurology
- organise relapse prevention
- promote inclusion
- provide health education
- psychopathology
- psychopharmacology
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- respond to changing situations in health care
- 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
What would be new
68 skillsEssential for a clinical psychologist and not for a music therapist. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- apply clinical psychological treatment
- apply psychological intervention strategies
- assess healthcare users' risk for harm
- carry out psychiatric assessment of child
- clinical psychological treatment
- clinical reports
- conditions for professional practice of clinical psychology
- conduct psychological assessement
- conduct psychological research
- consultation
- counsel clients
- counselling methods
- creation of clinical psychological opinions
- crisis intervention
- decide upon a psychotherapeutic approach
- diagnose mental disorders
- diagnose psychiatric symptoms
- diagnosis of mental health issues
- drug interaction management
- emergency psychology
- employ cognitive behaviour treatment techniques
- evaluate clinical psychological measures
- evaluation of psychological performance
- expert services in clinical psychology
- first aid
- handle patient trauma
- health psychology
- help healthcare users develop social perceptiveness
- history of patient's psychotherapeutic problems
- identify mental health issues
- interpret psychological tests
- manage psychotherapeutic relationships
- methods of differential diagnosis
- monitor therapeutic progress
- multi-professional cooperation in health care
- perform therapy sessions
- prescribe psychotherapeutic treatment
- primary care
- promote mental health
and 28 more
Other moves from music therapist
2 roles- art therapist36 skills in common
- speech and language therapist33 skills in common
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How far are you from being a clinical psychologist?
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