psychotherapist
Code 2634.2.4
Psychotherapists assist and treat healthcare users with varying degrees of psychological, psychosocial, or psychosomatic behavioural disorders and pathogenic conditions by means of psychotherapeutic methods. They promote personal development and well-being and provide advice on improving relationships, capabilities, and problem-solving techniques. They use science-based psychotherapeutic methods such as behavioural therapy, existential analysis and logotherapy, psychoanalysis or systemic family therapy in order to guide the patients in their development and help them search for appropriate solutions to their problems. Psychotherapists are not required to have academic degrees in psychology or a medical qualification in psychiatry. It is an independent occupation from psychology, psychiatry, and counselling.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- conditions for the professional practice of psychotherapy
- psychological diagnostics
- historic development of psychotherapeutic schools
- history of patient's psychotherapeutic problems
- psychosomatics
- scientific research methodology
- psycho-social forms of intervention
- psychopharmacology
- psychology
- psychopathology
- psychiatry
- supervision of persons
- theories of personality
- personality development theories
- psychological theories
- therapy in health care
- disorders affecting self-awareness
- psychiatric disorders
Skills and competences
- apply context specific clinical competences
- accept own accountability
- handle patient trauma
- support patients to understand their conditions
- communicate in healthcare
- conclude the psychotherapeutic relationship
- contribute to continuity of health care
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- discuss the end point of therapeutic intervention
- decide upon a psychotherapeutic approach
- empathise with the healthcare user
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- evaluate practice in psychotherapy
- formulate a case conceptualisation model for therapy
- manage healthcare users' data
- manage psychotherapeutic relationships
- identify mental health issues
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- maintain personal development in psychotherapy
- keep up with current trends in psychotherapy
- listen actively
- organise relapse prevention
- promote psycho-social education
- encourage healthcare user's self-monitoring
- provide a psychotherapeutic environment
- use psychotherapeutic interventions
- perform therapy sessions
- conduct psychotherapy risk assessments
- 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 with healthcare users under medication
- work on psychosomatic issues
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- use clinical assessment techniques
- use techniques to increase patients' motivation
Transversal competences
- respond to changing situations in health care
- counsel clients
- conceptualise healthcare user’s needs
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- manage personal professional development
- promote mental health
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- health care occupation-specific ethics
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