As a Health Psychologist, you will need to master following:

• accept own accountability
• advise on healthcare users' informed consent
• advise on mental health
• 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
• assess healthcare users' risk for harm
• clinical reports
• comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
• conditions for professional practice of health psychology
• conduct psychological assessement
• contribute to continuity of health care
• emergency psychology
• employ cognitive behaviour treatment techniques
• encourage healthy behaviours
• ensure safety of healthcare users
• evaluate psychological health measures
• evaluation of psychological performance
• formulate a case conceptualisation model for therapy
• health psychology
• help healthcare users develop social perceptiveness
• manage health promotion activities
• perform therapy sessions
• promote inclusion
• promote psycho-social education
• provide health counselling
• 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
• psychological healthcare services
• psychological interventions
• psychological measures in working with other health care professionals
• psychopathology
• psychopharmacology
• 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 techniques to increase patients' motivation
• work in multidisciplinary health teams
• work with patterns of psychological behaviour

More generally, a health psychologist is also versed in:

• adhere to organisational guidelines
• advise policy makers in healthcare
• apply organisational techniques
• comply with legislation related to health care
• 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
• provide health education
• psychiatry
• psychological concepts
• psychological counselling methods
• 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

It also helps to know the following:

• apply a holistic approach in care
• apply caseload management
• diagnose mental disorders
• provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
• psychosomatics
• work on the effects of abuse
• ensure proper appointment administration
• use foreign languages for health-related research
• use foreign languages in patient care