Competencies
- Acquisition, development and implementation of an over-arching concept of health, including its biopsychosocial components, in accordance with guidelines established by the WHO.
- Awareness of the activities necessary for the establishment, implementation and management of a company, its different legal forms and associated legal, accounting and fiscal obligations.
- Awareness of the framework of action of the general health psychologist and knowing how to make a referral to the corresponding specialist professional.
- Critical analysis and use of clinical information sources.
- Demonstration of interpersonal communication skills and handling of proper emotions for effective interaction with patients, families and caregivers in the process of problem identification, assessment, communication of diagnosis and intervention and psychological follow-up.
- Development of their work from the perspective of quality and continuous improvement, with the capacity for self-analysis required for responsible professional performance.
- Formulation of working hypotheses in research and collection and critical assessment of information to solve problems through the application of the scientific method.
- Having an in-depth understanding of the psychological nature of human behaviour, as well as the social and biological factors that can affect it.
- In-depth knowledge about the biological and psychosocial factors associated with health problems and disease, especially those related to mental health.
- In-depth knowledge about the biological and psychosocial factors associated with health problems and disease.
- In-depth knowledge about the different models of assessment and intervention in the field of General Health Psychology as well as the ensuing recommended techniques and procedures to address behavioural disorders as well as in the psychological factors associated with health problems.
- In-depth knowledge about the psychological nature of human behavioural disorders.
- Knowledge of current legislation in the Spanish health sector.
- Knowledge of how to communicate with other professionals, and mastery of the skills necessary to work in a team and in multidisciplinary groups.
- Knowledge of the duties and responsibilities of health personnel regarding the confidentiality of information and protection of personal data of patients.
- Planning, implementation and, where appropriate, monitoring of the psychological assessment process of human behaviour and psychological factors associated with health problems to establish how it is to be assessed.
- Proper drafting of psychological reports for recipients.
- The application of the fundamentals of bioethics and the method of deliberation in professional practice, adjusting his/her practice as a health professional to the provisions of Law 44/2003, dated 21 November, regulating the health profession.
- The design, development as well as the monitoring and assessment, if appropriate, of psychological intervention plans and programs, in terms of psychological assessment and concurrent individual and social variables in each case.
- Undertaking advocacy and education activities for individual and community psychological health.
- Use of information technology and communication in professional practice.