clinical psychologist
Code 2634.2.1
The clinical psychologist (psicóloga clínica) assesses and intervenes in mental health: diagnosis, psychotherapy and networked work with the health team. Use this Job Dictionary profile to define the clinical role as distinct from organisational or educational psychology.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- Operaciones comunes y flujos de trabajo en entornos de salud
- primary care
- conditions for professional practice of clinical psychology
- consultation
- creation of clinical psychological opinions
- diagnosis of mental health issues
- psychological diagnostics
- evaluation of psychological performance
- history of patient's psychotherapeutic problems
- psychological interventions
- crisis intervention
- psychological treatment measures
- counselling methods
- methods of differential diagnosis
- neurology
- psychopharmacology
- psychology
- emergency psychology
- health psychology
- psychopathology
- psychiatry
- psychological healthcare services
- expert services in clinical psychology
- therapy in health care
- clinical psychological treatment
Skills and competences
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply clinical psychological treatment
- accept own accountability
- handle patient trauma
- support patients to understand their conditions
- help healthcare users develop social perceptiveness
- contribute to continuity of health care
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- decide upon a psychotherapeutic approach
- provide testimony in court hearings
- diagnose mental disorders
- empathise with the healthcare user
- apply psychological intervention strategies
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- evaluate clinical psychological measures
- test for behavioural patterns
- test for emotional patterns
- formulate a case conceptualisation model for therapy
- manage healthcare users' data
- manage psychotherapeutic relationships
- identify mental health issues
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- interpret psychological tests
- provide clinical psychological expert opinions
- listen actively
- organise relapse prevention
- promote psycho-social education
- promote inclusion
- provide clinical psychological support in crisis situations
- provide psychological interventions to chronically ill persons
- provide clinical psychological assessment
- provide a psychotherapeutic environment
- use psychotherapeutic interventions
- conduct psychological research
- perform therapy sessions
- conduct psychological assessement
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- record the outcome of psychotherapy
- interact with healthcare users
- respond to healthcare users' extreme emotions
- follow clinical guidelines
- monitor therapeutic progress
- work with patterns of psychological behaviour
- work on psychosomatic issues
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- employ cognitive behaviour treatment techniques
- use clinical assessment techniques
- use techniques to increase patients' motivation
Transversal competences
- deal with emergency care situations
- respond to changing situations in health care
- apply organisational techniques
- counsel clients
- multi-professional cooperation in health care
- refer healthcare users
- educate on the prevention of illness
- assess healthcare users' risk for harm
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- drug interaction management
- clinical reports
- first aid
- promote mental health
- provide clinical psychological counselling
- provide health education
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
- provide strategies of differential diagnosis
- health care occupation-specific ethics
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What to assess for this role
Assess clinical judgment, crisis handling and proper clinical documentation.
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Common questions about this role when you are hiring or writing the job profile.
- What does a clinical psychologist do?
- Runs psychological assessment, forms clinical hypotheses and delivers psychotherapy within evidence and ethics.
- Can they do workplace psych assessments?
- Some can with training and experience; it is not the clinical role's core. Workplace assessment usually needs an organisational profile.
- What to measure when hiring?
- Clinical supervision, complex-case handling and interdisciplinary work.
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences