From psychotherapist to health psychologist
34 of the 82 essential skills of a health psychologist are already essential for a psychotherapist — about 41% 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.
- 34
- skills carry over
- 48
- would be new
- 41%
- of the target job covered
- 82
- essential skills of a health psychologist
What a health psychologist does
Health psychologists deal with the various aspects of health related behaviour of individuals and groups, by helping individuals or groups prevent illness and promote healthy behaviours by also providing counseling services. They perform tasks for the development of health promotion activities and projects on the basis of psychological science, research findings, theories, methods and techniques. They also engage in research about health related issues to influence public policy on health care issues.
What carries over
34 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply context specific clinical competences
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- contribute to continuity of health care
- counsel clients
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- 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
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- manage healthcare users' data
- perform therapy sessions
- prescribe psychotherapeutic treatment
- promote psycho-social education
- psychiatry
- psychological diagnostics
- psychology
- psychopathology
- psychopharmacology
- respond to changing situations in health care
- respond to healthcare users' extreme emotions
- support patients to understand their conditions
- 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 with patterns of psychological behaviour
What would be new
48 skillsEssential for a health psychologist and not for a psychotherapist. 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 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 health psychological measures
- apply organisational techniques
- assess healthcare users' risk for harm
- clinical reports
- conditions for professional practice of health psychology
- conduct psychological assessement
- consultation
- counselling methods
- crisis intervention
- deal with emergency care situations
- educate on the prevention of illness
- emergency psychology
- employ cognitive behaviour treatment techniques
- encourage healthy behaviours
- evaluate psychological health measures
- evaluation of psychological performance
- first aid
- health psychology
- help healthcare users develop social perceptiveness
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interpret psychological tests
- manage health promotion activities
- neurology
- promote inclusion
- 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
- psychological concepts
- psychological counselling methods
and 8 more
Other moves from psychotherapist
2 roles- clinical psychologist48 skills in common
- speech and language therapist26 skills in common
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How far are you from being a health psychologist?
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