From psychotherapist to clinical psychologist
48 of the 99 essential skills of a clinical psychologist are already essential for a psychotherapist — about 48% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from psychotherapist 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.
- 48
- skills carry over
- 51
- would be new
- 48%
- 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
48 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
- decide upon a psychotherapeutic approach
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- diagnose psychiatric symptoms
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- follow clinical guidelines
- formulate a case conceptualisation model for therapy
- handle patient trauma
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- history of patient's psychotherapeutic problems
- identify mental health issues
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- manage healthcare users' data
- manage psychotherapeutic relationships
- monitor therapeutic progress
- organise relapse prevention
- perform therapy sessions
- prescribe psychotherapeutic treatment
- promote mental health
- promote psycho-social education
- provide a psychotherapeutic environment
- psychiatry
- psychological diagnostics
- psychology
- psychopathology
- psychopharmacology
- record the outcome of psychotherapy
- respond to changing situations in health care
- respond to healthcare users' extreme emotions
- support patients to understand their conditions
- therapy in health care
and 8 more
What would be new
51 skillsEssential for a clinical 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.
- apply clinical psychological treatment
- apply organisational techniques
- 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
- counselling methods
- creation of clinical psychological opinions
- crisis intervention
- deal with emergency care situations
- diagnose mental disorders
- diagnosis of mental health issues
- drug interaction management
- educate on the prevention of illness
- emergency psychology
- employ cognitive behaviour treatment techniques
- evaluate clinical psychological measures
- evaluation of psychological performance
- expert services in clinical psychology
- first aid
- health psychology
- help healthcare users develop social perceptiveness
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interpret psychological tests
- methods of differential diagnosis
- multi-professional cooperation in health care
- neurology
- primary care
- promote inclusion
- provide clinical psychological assessment
- provide clinical psychological counselling
- provide clinical psychological expert opinions
- provide clinical psychological support in crisis situations
- provide health education
- provide psychological interventions to chronically ill persons
and 11 more
Other moves from psychotherapist
2 roles- health psychologist34 skills in common
- speech and language therapist26 skills in common
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How far are you from being a clinical psychologist?
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