From health psychologist to clinical psychologist
60 of the 99 essential skills of a clinical psychologist are already essential for a health psychologist — about 61% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from health psychologist in the whole taxonomy.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 60
- skills carry over
- 39
- would be new
- 61%
- 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
60 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
- 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
- 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
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- 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 healthcare users' data
- neurology
- perform therapy sessions
- prescribe psychotherapeutic treatment
- promote inclusion
- promote psycho-social education
- provide health education
and 20 more
What would be new
39 skillsEssential for a clinical psychologist and not for a health psychologist. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- apply clinical psychological treatment
- apply psychological intervention strategies
- carry out psychiatric assessment of child
- clinical psychological treatment
- conditions for professional practice of clinical psychology
- conduct psychological research
- creation of clinical psychological opinions
- decide upon a psychotherapeutic approach
- diagnose mental disorders
- diagnose psychiatric symptoms
- diagnosis of mental health issues
- drug interaction management
- evaluate clinical psychological measures
- expert services in clinical psychology
- handle patient trauma
- history of patient's psychotherapeutic problems
- identify mental health issues
- manage psychotherapeutic relationships
- methods of differential diagnosis
- monitor therapeutic progress
- multi-professional cooperation in health care
- organise relapse prevention
- primary care
- promote mental health
- provide a psychotherapeutic environment
- provide clinical psychological assessment
- provide clinical psychological counselling
- provide clinical psychological expert opinions
- provide clinical psychological support in crisis situations
- provide psychological interventions to chronically ill persons
- provide strategies of differential diagnosis
- provide testimony in court hearings
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- record the outcome of psychotherapy
- refer healthcare users
- scientific literature
- use psychoeducation
- use psychotherapeutic interventions
- work on psychosomatic issues
Other moves from health psychologist
2 roles- psychotherapist34 skills in common
- speech and language therapist32 skills in common
← health psychologistclinical psychologist →The other way round
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How far are you from being a clinical psychologist?
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