clinical psychologisttohealth psychologist
A clinical psychologist already meets 75% of what the health psychologist role asks for. The move turns on 21 required skills not yet in the profile.
75%
49.3/ 100
1 Share of the health psychologist role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the clinical psychologist profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Why this move works
A health psychologist role treats 61 of its required skills as things a clinical psychologist already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply organisational techniques
- assess healthcare users' risk for harm
What stands in the way is 21 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 72 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A health psychologist role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a clinical psychologist background worth leading with.
- already held emergency psychology social sciences, journalism and information
- already held psychological healthcare services social sciences, journalism and information
- already held help healthcare users develop social perceptiveness communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held promote psycho-social education communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held psychosomatics social sciences, journalism and information
- already held assess healthcare users' risk for harm information skills
All 72 carried skills, including the 61 the health psychologist role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 22 missing skills fall into 5 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held encourage healthy behaviours required
- required, not held provide health counselling required
- required, not held advise on mental health required
- required, not held provide health psychological advice required
- required, not held provide health psychological analysis required
- required, not held provide health psychological treatment advice required
- required, not held advise policy makers in healthcare required
- required, not held analyse health damaging behaviours required
- required, not held analyse large-scale data in healthcare required
- required, not held evaluate psychological health measures required
- required, not held provide health psychological diagnosis required
- required, not held analyse processes influencing health care delivery required
- required, not held provide psychological health assessment strategies required
- required, not held manage health promotion activities required
- required, not held provide health psychological concepts required
- required, not held conditions for professional practice of health psychology required
- required, not held psychological measures in working with other health care professionals required
- required, not held psychological concepts required
- required, not held psychological counselling methods required
- required, not held apply health psychological measures required
- required, not held analyse psychological aspects of illness required
- optional, not held apply a holistic approach in care optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a health psychologist role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 analyse health damaging behaviours skill · occupation specific
- 02 analyse processes influencing health care delivery skill · occupation specific
- 03 apply health psychological measures skill · occupation specific
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 72 skills that carry over
- already held accept own accountability skill
- already held adhere to organisational guidelines skill
- already held advise on healthcare users' informed consent skill
- already held apply context specific clinical competences skill
- already held apply organisational techniques skill
- already held assess healthcare users' risk for harm skill
- already held clinical reports knowledge
- already held comply with legislation related to health care skill
- already held comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice skill
- already held conduct psychological assessement skill
- already held consultation knowledge
- already held contribute to continuity of health care skill
- already held counsel clients skill
- already held counselling methods knowledge
- already held crisis intervention knowledge
- already held deal with emergency care situations skill
- already held develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship skill
- already held educate on the prevention of illness skill
- already held emergency psychology knowledge
- already held empathise with the healthcare user skill
- already held employ cognitive behaviour treatment techniques skill
- already held ensure safety of healthcare users skill
- already held evaluation of psychological performance knowledge
- already held first aid knowledge
- already held follow clinical guidelines skill
- already held formulate a case conceptualisation model for therapy skill
- already held health care occupation-specific ethics knowledge
- already held health psychology knowledge
- already held help healthcare users develop social perceptiveness skill
- already held inform policy makers on health-related challenges skill
- already held interact with healthcare users skill
- already held interpret psychological tests skill
- already held listen actively skill
- already held manage healthcare users' data skill
- already held neurology knowledge
- already held perform therapy sessions skill
- already held prescribe psychotherapeutic treatment skill
- already held promote inclusion skill
- already held promote psycho-social education skill
- already held provide health education skill
- already held psychiatry knowledge
- already held psychological diagnostics knowledge
- already held psychological healthcare services knowledge
- already held psychological interventions knowledge
- already held psychological treatment measures knowledge
- already held psychology knowledge
- already held psychopathology knowledge
- already held psychopharmacology knowledge
- already held research design knowledge
- already held respond to changing situations in health care skill
- already held respond to healthcare users' extreme emotions skill
- already held support patients to understand their conditions skill
- already held test for behavioural patterns skill
- already held test for emotional patterns skill
- already held therapy in health care knowledge
- already held use clinical assessment techniques skill
- already held use e-health and mobile health technologies skill
- already held use techniques to increase patients' motivation skill
- already held work in a multicultural environment in health care skill
- already held work in multidisciplinary health teams skill
- already held work with patterns of psychological behaviour skill
- already held apply caseload management skill
- already held diagnose mental disorders skill
- already held diagnose psychiatric symptoms skill
- already held experimental psychology knowledge
- already held occupational health knowledge
- already held provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health skill
- already held psychosomatics knowledge
- already held sexual disorders knowledge
- already held use foreign languages for health-related research skill
- already held use foreign languages in patient care skill
- already held work on the effects of abuse skill
1 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held apply a holistic approach in care optional
48 held skills the health psychologist role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role apply clinical psychological treatment skill
- not needed by the target role apply hypno-psychotherapy skill
- not needed by the target role apply psychoanalysis skill
- not needed by the target role apply psychological intervention strategies skill
- not needed by the target role apply systemic therapy skill
- not needed by the target role carry out psychiatric assessment of child skill
- not needed by the target role clinical psychological treatment knowledge
- not needed by the target role clinical social work knowledge
- not needed by the target role conditions for professional practice of clinical psychology knowledge
- not needed by the target role conduct forensic evaluations skill
- not needed by the target role conduct psychological research skill
- not needed by the target role creation of clinical psychological opinions knowledge
- not needed by the target role decide upon a psychotherapeutic approach skill
- not needed by the target role diagnosis of mental health issues knowledge
- not needed by the target role drug interaction management knowledge
- not needed by the target role evaluate clinical psychological measures skill
- not needed by the target role expert services in clinical psychology knowledge
- not needed by the target role forensic psychiatry knowledge
- not needed by the target role handle patient trauma skill
- not needed by the target role history of patient's psychotherapeutic problems knowledge
- not needed by the target role identify mental health issues skill
- not needed by the target role manage psychotherapeutic relationships skill
- not needed by the target role methods of differential diagnosis knowledge
- not needed by the target role monitor therapeutic progress skill
- not needed by the target role multi-professional cooperation in health care knowledge
- not needed by the target role neuroscience knowledge
- not needed by the target role organise relapse prevention skill
- not needed by the target role prescribe medication skill
- not needed by the target role primary care knowledge
- not needed by the target role promote mental health skill
- not needed by the target role provide a psychotherapeutic environment skill
- not needed by the target role provide clinical advice to team members skill
- not needed by the target role provide clinical psychological assessment skill
- not needed by the target role provide clinical psychological counselling skill
- not needed by the target role provide clinical psychological expert opinions skill
- not needed by the target role provide clinical psychological support in crisis situations skill
- not needed by the target role provide psychological interventions to chronically ill persons skill
- not needed by the target role provide strategies of differential diagnosis skill
- not needed by the target role provide testimony in court hearings skill
- not needed by the target role record healthcare users' progress related to treatment skill
8 further entries not listed here
4 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- required, not held conditions for professional practice of health psychology required
- required, not held psychological measures in working with other health care professionals required
- required, not held psychological concepts required
- required, not held psychological counselling methods required
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.