Work with healthcare users under medication

Description

Work with healthcare users who are using prescribed medications and other drugs.

Alternative labels

work with health care users on medication
work with patients using prescribed medications
work with service users under medication
work with health care users under medication
work with service users on medication
work with healthcare users on medication
work with a healthcare user under medication

Skill type

skill/competence

Skill reusability level

sector-specific

Relationships with occupations

Essential skill

Work with healthcare users under medication 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

Work with healthcare users under medication 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.

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.

 


 

References

  1. Work with healthcare users under medication – ESCO

 

Last updated on September 20, 2022