Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a health psychologist can go next

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

Health psychologists deal with the various aspects of health related behaviour of individuals and groups, by helping individuals or groups prevent illness and promote healthy behaviours by also providing counseling services. They perform tasks for the development of health promotion activities and projects on the basis of psychological science, research findings, theories, methods and techniques. They also engage in research about health related issues to influence public policy on health care issues.

Also known as health psychology researcher, research health psychologist, practitioner of healthcare psychology, consultant health psychologist, consultant in health psychology, specialist healthcare psychologist, healthcare psychologist, expert healthcare psychologist.

Professionals 94 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: assistant clinical psychologist, 65%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
assistant clinical psychologi… 65% covered healthcare assistant 64% covered clinical psychologist 62% covered physiotherapy assistant 56% covered dental hygienist 56% covered health psychologist You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from health 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 health 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 health psychologist needs 82 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
  • analyse health damaging behaviours information skills
  • analyse processes influencing health care delivery management skills
  • apply health psychological measures assisting and caring
  • conditions for professional practice of health psychology social sciences, journalism and information
  • encourage healthy behaviours communication, collaboration and creativity
  • provide health counselling communication, collaboration and creativity
  • provide psychological health assessment strategies management skills
  • psychological measures in working with other health care professionals social sciences, journalism and information
  • analyse large-scale data in healthcare information skills
  • analyse psychological aspects of illness assisting and caring
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Health 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 health 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.