Conduct psychotherapy risk assessments

Description

Conduct risk assessment procedures, making use of any tools or guidelines. Recognise language used by the patient that might imply harm to self or others asking direct questions if required. Facilitate the process of getting the patient to discuss any thoughts of suicide, and quantify the likelihood of these being put to practice.'.

Occupations requiring this skill

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Skill demand overview
  • Essential in 1 occupations
  • Optional in 0 occupations
  • Total: 1 occupations
  • Most common in: ISCO major group 2 (Professionals)

Essential for

  • Psychotherapist
    Psychotherapists assist and treat healthcare users with varying degrees of psychological, psychosocial, or psychosomatic behavioural disorders and pathogenic conditions by means of…

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Last updated on February 19, 2026

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