psychotherapist

Description

Psychotherapists assist and treat healthcare users with varying degrees of psychological, psychosocial, or psychosomatic behavioural disorders and pathogenic conditions by means of psychotherapeutic methods. They promote personal development and well-being and provide advice on improving relationships, capabilities, and problem-solving techniques. They use science-based psychotherapeutic methods such as behavioural therapy, existential analysis and logotherapy, psychoanalysis or systemic family therapy in order to guide the patients in their development and help them search for appropriate solutions to their problems. Psychotherapists are not required to have academic degrees in psychology or a medical qualification in psychiatry. It is an independent occupation from psychology, psychiatry, and counselling.

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Theoretical Knowledge

Practical Skills

communicate in healthcare use psychoeducation use psychotherapeutic interventions formulate a case conceptualisation model for therapy manage personal professional development monitor therapeutic progress interact with healthcare users keep up with current trends in psychotherapy promote psycho-social education accept own accountability discuss the end point of therapeutic intervention conduct psychotherapy risk assessments evaluate practice in psychotherapy work on psychosomatic issues identify mental health issues maintain personal development in psychotherapy follow clinical guidelines handle patient trauma work with patterns of psychological behaviour provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health conclude the psychotherapeutic relationship ensure safety of healthcare users counsel clients provide a psychotherapeutic environment respond to changing situations in health care use e-health and mobile health technologies work with healthcare users under medication adhere to organisational guidelines contribute to continuity of health care manage healthcare users' data record the outcome of psychotherapy promote mental health prescribe psychotherapeutic treatment support patients to understand their conditions encourage healthcare user's self-monitoring respond to healthcare users' extreme emotions diagnose psychiatric symptoms apply context specific clinical competences comply with legislation related to health care conceptualise healthcare user’s needs develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship use techniques to increase patients' motivation organise relapse prevention use clinical assessment techniques decide upon a psychotherapeutic approach comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice empathise with the healthcare user listen actively work in a multicultural environment in health care manage psychotherapeutic relationships advise on healthcare users' informed consent perform therapy sessions work in multidisciplinary health teams employ cognitive behaviour treatment techniques record healthcare users' billing information address side effects of menopause apply systemic design thinking provide health education use foreign languages in patient care inform policy makers on health-related challenges apply psychoanalysis apply organisational techniques work with healthcare users' social network educate on the prevention of illness apply hypno-psychotherapy collaborate to discuss treatment plans in psychotherapy work on the effects of abuse apply caseload management apply systemic therapy deal with emergency care situations help healthcare users develop social perceptiveness carry out psychiatric assessment of child diagnose mental disorders use foreign languages for health-related research promote inclusion