# Competences — psychotherapist

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/af69484e-b43f-4685-b22d-f3418df45c4d).

## Essential

- **accept own accountability** (skill/competence)
- **adhere to organisational guidelines** (skill/competence)
- **advise on healthcare users' informed consent** (skill/competence)
- **apply context specific clinical competences** (skill/competence)
- **body language** (knowledge)
- **clinical social work** (knowledge)
- **communicate in healthcare** (skill/competence)
- **comply with legislation related to health care** (skill/competence)
- **comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice** (skill/competence)
- **conceptualise healthcare user’s needs** (skill/competence)
- **conclude the psychotherapeutic relationship** (skill/competence)
- **conditions for the professional practice of psychotherapy** (knowledge)
- **conduct psychotherapy risk assessments** (skill/competence)
- **contribute to continuity of health care** (skill/competence)
- **counsel clients** (skill/competence)
- **decide upon a psychotherapeutic approach** (skill/competence)
- **develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship** (skill/competence)
- **diagnose psychiatric symptoms** (skill/competence)
- **discuss the end point of therapeutic intervention** (skill/competence)
- **disorders affecting self-awareness** (knowledge)
- **empathise with the healthcare user** (skill/competence)
- **encourage healthcare user's self-monitoring** (skill/competence)
- **ensure safety of healthcare users** (skill/competence)
- **evaluate practice in psychotherapy** (skill/competence)
- **follow clinical guidelines** (skill/competence)
- **formulate a case conceptualisation model for therapy** (skill/competence)
- **handle patient trauma** (skill/competence)
- **health care occupation-specific ethics** (knowledge)
- **historic development of psychotherapeutic schools** (knowledge)
- **history of patient's psychotherapeutic problems** (knowledge)
- **identify mental health issues** (skill/competence)
- **interact with healthcare users** (skill/competence)
- **keep up with current trends in psychotherapy** (skill/competence)
- **listen actively** (skill/competence)
- **maintain personal development in psychotherapy** (skill/competence)
- **manage healthcare users' data** (skill/competence)
- **manage personal professional development** (skill/competence)
- **manage psychotherapeutic relationships** (skill/competence)
- **monitor therapeutic progress** (skill/competence)
- **organise relapse prevention** (skill/competence)
- **perform therapy sessions** (skill/competence)
- **personality development theories** (knowledge)
- **prescribe psychotherapeutic treatment** (skill/competence)
- **promote mental health** (skill/competence)
- **promote psycho-social education** (skill/competence)
- **provide a psychotherapeutic environment** (skill/competence)
- **provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health** (skill/competence)
- **psychiatric disorders** (knowledge)
- **psychiatry** (knowledge)
- **psychological diagnostics** (knowledge)
- **psychological theories** (knowledge)
- **psychology** (knowledge)
- **psychopathology** (knowledge)
- **psychopharmacology** (knowledge)
- **psycho-social forms of intervention** (knowledge)
- **psychosomatics** (knowledge)
- **record the outcome of psychotherapy** (skill/competence)
- **respond to changing situations in health care** (skill/competence)
- **respond to healthcare users' extreme emotions** (skill/competence)
- **scientific research methodology** (knowledge)
- **supervision of persons** (knowledge)
- **support patients to understand their conditions** (skill/competence)
- **theories of personality** (knowledge)
- **therapy in health care** (knowledge)
- **use clinical assessment techniques** (skill/competence)
- **use e-health and mobile health technologies** (skill/competence)
- **use psychoeducation** (skill/competence)
- **use psychotherapeutic interventions** (skill/competence)
- **use techniques to increase patients' motivation** (skill/competence)
- **work in a multicultural environment in health care** (skill/competence)
- **work on psychosomatic issues** (skill/competence)
- **work with healthcare users under medication** (skill/competence)
- **work with patterns of psychological behaviour** (skill/competence)

## Optional

- address side effects of menopause (skill/competence)
- apply caseload management (skill/competence)
- apply hypno-psychotherapy (skill/competence)
- apply organisational techniques (skill/competence)
- apply psychoanalysis (skill/competence)
- apply systemic design thinking (skill/competence)
- apply systemic therapy (skill/competence)
- carry out psychiatric assessment of child (skill/competence)
- collaborate to discuss treatment plans in psychotherapy (skill/competence)
- deal with emergency care situations (skill/competence)
- diagnose mental disorders (skill/competence)
- educate on the prevention of illness (skill/competence)
- employ cognitive behaviour treatment techniques (skill/competence)
- geriatrics (knowledge)
- help healthcare users develop social perceptiveness (skill/competence)
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges (skill/competence)
- paediatrics (knowledge)
- pedagogy (knowledge)
- promote inclusion (skill/competence)
- provide health education (skill/competence)
- psychoanalysis (knowledge)
- psychomotor therapy (knowledge)
- record healthcare users' billing information (skill/competence)
- rehabilitation (knowledge)
- sexual disorders (knowledge)
- use foreign languages for health-related research (skill/competence)
- use foreign languages in patient care (skill/competence)
- work in multidisciplinary health teams (skill/competence)
- work on the effects of abuse (skill/competence)
- work with healthcare users' social network (skill/competence)