Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a clinical psychologist can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a clinical psychologist already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

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.

Also known as expert in clinical psychology, specialist clinical psychologist, practitioner of clinical psychology, hospital psychologist, psychologist in hospital, expert clinical psychologist, hospital psychology practitioner, clinical psychology practitioner.

Professionals 120 skills on file 5 career moves 4 above 60% overlap Closest: assistant clinical psychologist, 77%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
assistant clinical psychologi… 77% covered health psychologist 75% covered psychotherapist 71% covered healthcare assistant 64% covered physiotherapy assistant 59% covered clinical psychologist You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from clinical psychologist, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a clinical psychologist already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A clinical psychologist needs 99 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • expert services in clinical psychology social sciences, journalism and information
  • methods of differential diagnosis health and welfare
  • provide psychological interventions to chronically ill persons assisting and caring
  • provide strategies of differential diagnosis information skills
  • apply psychological intervention strategies assisting and caring
  • conditions for professional practice of clinical psychology social sciences, journalism and information
  • creation of clinical psychological opinions social sciences, journalism and information
  • drug interaction management business, administration and law
  • emergency psychology social sciences, journalism and information
  • evaluate clinical psychological measures information skills
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a clinical psychologist does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Clinical psychologist is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a clinical psychologist’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.