Occupation Atlashealth psychologist
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/976c7f50-7f9e-4347-bbb9-f0dc842046a3
health psychologist
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.
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Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed
Extensive preparation. Usually a graduate degree, with extensive skill, knowledge and experience — many of these occupations expect more than five years of experience.
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Occupational interest profile
SICSocial · Investigative · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social6.57
- I Investigative5.58
- C Conventional3.49
- A Artistic3.06
- E Enterprising2.65
- R Realistic1.05
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Clinical and Counseling Psychologists (19-3033.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, a broader O*NET occupation that includes this one, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (82)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- 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
- 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
- conditions for professional practice of health psychology
- 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
- encourage healthy behaviours
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- evaluate psychological health measures
- 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 health promotion activities
- manage healthcare users' data
- neurology
- perform therapy sessions
- prescribe psychotherapeutic treatment
- promote inclusion
- promote psycho-social education
- 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
- psychiatry
- psychological concepts
- psychological counselling methods
- psychological diagnostics
- psychological healthcare services
- psychological interventions
- psychological measures in working with other health care professionals
- psychological treatment measures
- psychology
- psychopathology
- psychopharmacology
- research design
- respond to changing situations in health care
- respond to healthcare users' extreme emotions
- support patients to understand their conditions
- test for behavioural patterns
- test for emotional patterns
- 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 in multidisciplinary health teams
- work with patterns of psychological behaviour
Optional (12)
- apply a holistic approach in care
- apply caseload management
- diagnose mental disorders
- diagnose psychiatric symptoms
- experimental psychology
- occupational health
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- psychosomatics
- sexual disorders
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- use foreign languages in patient care
- work on the effects of abuse
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
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