Clinical Psychologist
Clinical Psychologist
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Job Description
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..
Top 61 specific things you need to know
As a Clinical Psychologist, you will need to master following:
- accept own accountability
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply clinical psychological treatment
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply psychological intervention strategies
- assess healthcare users' risk for harm
- clinical psychological treatment
- clinical reports
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- conditions for professional practice of clinical psychology
- conduct psychological assessement
- contribute to continuity of health care
- creation of clinical psychological opinions
- decide upon a psychotherapeutic approach
- diagnose mental disorders
- diagnosis of mental health issues
- drug interaction management
- emergency psychology
- employ cognitive behaviour treatment techniques
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- evaluate clinical psychological measures
- evaluation of psychological performance
- expert services in clinical psychology
- formulate a case conceptualisation model for therapy
- handle patient trauma
- health psychology
- help healthcare users develop social perceptiveness
- history of patient's psychotherapeutic problems
- identify mental health issues
- manage psychotherapeutic relationships
- methods of differential diagnosis
- monitor therapeutic progress
- multi-professional cooperation in health care
- organise relapse prevention
- perform therapy sessions
- promote inclusion
- promote mental health
- promote psycho-social education
- provide a psychotherapeutic environment
- provide clinical psychological assessment
- provide clinical psychological expert opinions
- provide clinical psychological support in crisis situations
- provide psychological interventions to chronically ill persons
- provide strategies of differential diagnosis
- psychological healthcare services
- psychological interventions
- psychopathology
- psychopharmacology
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- record the outcome of psychotherapy
- refer healthcare users
- respond to healthcare users' extreme emotions
- support patients to understand their conditions
- therapy in health care
- use clinical assessment techniques
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- use psychotherapeutic interventions
- use techniques to increase patients' motivation
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
- work on psychosomatic issues
- work with patterns of psychological behaviour
Top 33 general things you need to know
More generally, a clinical psychologist is also versed in:
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- apply organisational techniques
- comply with legislation related to health care
- conduct psychological research
- consultation
- counsel clients
- counselling methods
- crisis intervention
- deal with emergency care situations
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- educate on the prevention of illness
- empathise with the healthcare user
- first aid
- follow clinical guidelines
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interact with healthcare users
- interpret psychological tests
- listen actively
- manage healthcare users' data
- neurology
- primary care
- provide clinical psychological counselling
- provide health education
- provide testimony in court hearings
- psychiatry
- psychological diagnostics
- psychological treatment measures
- psychology
- respond to changing situations in health care
- test for behavioural patterns
- test for emotional patterns
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
Other things it helps to know to be an excellent clinical psychologist
It also helps to know the following:
- apply caseload management
- apply hypno-psychotherapy
- apply psychoanalysis
- apply systemic therapy
- prescribe medication
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- psychosomatics
- work on the effects of abuse
- work with healthcare users under medication
- work with healthcare users' social network
- ensure proper appointment administration
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- use foreign languages in patient care
Top employers for this job
Clinical Psychologist (0-2 Yrs Exp.)
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Prereqs Technology Pvt.Ltd
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California
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$250 - $800 / month
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