From healthcare assistant to health psychologist
23 of the 82 essential skills of a health psychologist are already essential for a healthcare assistant — about 28% 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.
- 23
- skills carry over
- 59
- would be new
- 28%
- 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
23 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 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
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- manage healthcare users' data
- promote inclusion
- provide health education
- respond to changing situations in health care
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
What would be new
59 skillsEssential for a health psychologist and not for a healthcare assistant. 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 context specific clinical competences
- apply health psychological measures
- assess healthcare users' risk for harm
- clinical reports
- conditions for professional practice of health psychology
- conduct psychological assessement
- consultation
- counsel clients
- counselling methods
- crisis intervention
- emergency psychology
- employ cognitive behaviour treatment techniques
- encourage healthy behaviours
- evaluate psychological health measures
- evaluation of psychological performance
- first aid
- formulate a case conceptualisation model for therapy
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- health psychology
- help healthcare users develop social perceptiveness
- interpret psychological tests
- manage health promotion activities
- neurology
- perform therapy sessions
- prescribe psychotherapeutic treatment
- promote psycho-social education
- provide health counselling
- 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
and 19 more
Other moves from healthcare assistant
2 roles- physiotherapy assistant23 skills in common
- nurse responsible for general care23 skills in common
← healthcare assistanthealth psychologist →The other way round
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How far are you from being a health psychologist?
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