Description
Develop and monitor personal qualities as a professional psychotherapist, ensuring resilience, the ability to manage complex and unpredictable behavior and taking appropriate action when required
Alternative labels
develop and monitor personal qualities as psychotherapist
uphold personal development in psychotherapy
apply personal development techniques as a psychotherapist
maintain psychotherapeutical personal development
Skill type
skill/competence
Skill reusability level
occupation-specific
Relationships with occupations
Essential skill
Maintain personal development in psychotherapy is an essential skill of the following occupations:
Psychotherapist: 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.
Optional skill
Maintain personal development in psychotherapy is optional for these occupations. This means knowing this skill may be an asset for career advancement if you are in one of these occupations.
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