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K - knowledge
L - language skills and knowledge
S - skills
S1 - communication, collaboration and creativity
S2 - information skills
S3 - assisting and caring
S3.0 - assisting and caring
S3.1 - counselling
S3.2 - providing health care or medical treatments
S3.2.0 - providing health care or medical treatments
S3.2.1 - providing medical, dental and nursing care
S3.2.2 - performing surgical procedures
S3.2.3 - providing physical therapies
S3.2.4 - providing psychological and occupational therapies
- analyse psychological aspects of illness
- apply art therapy interventions
- apply clinical psychological treatment
- apply health psychological measures
- apply hypno-psychotherapy
- apply music therapy methods
- apply music therapy termination methods
- apply music therapy treatment methods
- apply psychoanalysis
- apply psychological intervention strategies
- apply related sciences to music therapy
- apply techniques of occupational therapy
- challenge patient behaviour by means of art
- create individual treatment programmes
- deal with patients' anxiety
- design music therapy termination plan
- develop a rehabilitation programme
- employ cognitive behaviour treatment techniques
- interpret psychological tests
- organise group music therapy sessions
- perform musical improvisations in therapy
- perform therapy sessions
- plan music therapy sessions
- practice gestalt therapy
- prepare treatment plan for art therapy
- provide a psychotherapeutic environment
- provide clinical psychological counselling
- provide clinical psychological support in crisis situations
- provide directions in music therapy sessions
- provide psychological interventions to chronically ill persons
- provide safeguarding to individuals
- remediate healthcare user's occupational performance
- respond to incidents in music therapy sessions
- review music therapy treatment approaches
- treat medical conditions with art therapy
- use art in a therapeutic setting
- use music according to the needs of patients
- use psychotherapeutic interventions
- use therapeutic communication techniques
- work on psychosomatic issues
S3.2.5 - prescribing and ordering medical tests, treatments or devices
S3.2.6 - fitting assistive devices
S3.3 - protecting and enforcing
S3.4 - providing information and support to the public and clients
S3.5 - preparing and serving food and drinks
S3.6 - providing general personal care
S4 - management skills
S5 - working with computers
S6 - handling and moving
S7 - constructing
S8 - working with machinery and specialised equipment
T - transversal skills and competences

provide psychological support to patients

skills

assisting and caring

providing health care or medical treatments

providing psychological and occupational therapies

provide psychological support to patients

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Description

Provide accurate psychological and emotional support to anxious, vulnerable and confused healthcare users related to the treatment undergone.

Alternative Labels

give psychological support to patients

provide psychological support to healthcare users

provide psychological support to patients

provide psychological support to service users

support patients' pyschological wellbeing

Skill type

skill

Skill reusability level

cross-sector skills and competences

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ESCO is a Europe 2020 initiative.

DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission developed ESCO in collaboration with stakeholders and with the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop).

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Current version: ESCO v1.1.2 (Last update 22/02/2024)