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clinical-psychologist Occupational skill for the role 'clinical psychologist' (also: expert in clinical psychology, specialist clinical psychologist, practitioner of clinical psychology, hospital psychologist, psychologist in hospital, expert clinical psychologist). Use when the user asks for typical clinical psychologist work such as: Compare patients' progress before and after pharmacologic, surgical, or behavioral interventions.; Conduct neuropsychological evaluations such as assessments of intelligence, academic ability, attention, concentration, sensorimotor function, language, learning, and memory.; Consult with other professionals about patients' neurological conditions.

Clinical Psychologist

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.

Core workflow

  1. Compare patients' progress before and after pharmacologic, surgical, or behavioral interventions.
  2. Conduct neuropsychological evaluations such as assessments of intelligence, academic ability, attention, concentration, sensorimotor function, language, learning, and memory.
  3. Consult with other professionals about patients' neurological conditions.
  4. Design or implement rehabilitation plans for patients with cognitive dysfunction.
  5. Diagnose and treat conditions involving injury to the central nervous system, such as cerebrovascular accidents, neoplasms, infectious or inflammatory diseases, degenerative diseases, head traumas, demyelinating diseases, and various forms of dementing illnesses.
  6. Diagnose and treat neural and psychological conditions in medical and surgical populations, such as patients with early dementing illness or chronic pain with a neurological basis.
  7. Diagnose and treat pediatric populations for conditions such as learning disabilities with developmental or organic bases.
  8. Diagnose and treat psychiatric populations for conditions such as somatoform disorder, dementias, and psychoses.

How to use this skill

Key competences (essential)

  • accept own accountability
  • adhere to organisational guidelines
  • advise on healthcare users' informed consent
  • apply clinical psychological treatment
  • apply context specific clinical competences
  • apply organisational techniques
  • apply psychological intervention strategies
  • assess healthcare users' risk for harm
  • carry out psychiatric assessment of child
  • clinical psychological treatment
  • clinical reports
  • comply with legislation related to health care
  • comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
  • conditions for professional practice of clinical psychology
  • conduct psychological assessement

Hot technologies

  • IBM SPSS Statistics
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Word

Sources: ESCO v1.2.1 (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/c3c8c56c-b3ab-4425-a38a-abcace020d22), ONET 30.3 (19-3039.03). See manifest.json for licensing/attribution.*