Psychologists research into and study human mental processes and behaviour and apply this knowledge to promote personal, social, educational or occupational adjustment and development.
Planning, implementing and coordinating activities related to psychology / clinical psychology / counselling for the client;
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Advising on, planning and carrying out tests to measure mental, physical and other characteristics such as intelligence, abilities, attitudes and potential, and interpreting and evaluating results;
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Analysing heredity, social, occupational effects and those caused by other factors on individual thought and behaviour;
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Holding counselling sessions or therapeutic treatment and providing follow-up services;
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Maintaining communication with family members, educational authorities or employers and recommending possible solutions to and treatment of problems;
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Studying psychological factors in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental illnesses and emotional or personality disorders, and conferring with related professionals;
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Performing related tasks; and
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Enhancing knowledge and coordinating work performance.
What are the skills required?
Skills, knowledege and abilities that are essential to carry out a task with determined results. Skills can often be divided into domain-general and domain-specific skills.
Hard Skill
Analytics
Ability to deconstruct information into smaller categories in order to draw conclusions
Soft Skill
Bahasa Malaysia
Able to speak Bahasa Malaysia
Hard Skill
Clinical Psychology
Clinical psychology is an integration of science, theory and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development.
Hard Skill
Crisis Intervention
Crisis intervention is an immediate and short-term psychological care aimed at assisting individuals in a crisis situation to restore equilibrium to their biopsychosocial functioning and to minimize the potential for long-term psychological trauma.
Soft Skill
English
Able to speak English
Hard Skill
Hypnosis
Hypnosis is a state of human consciousness involving focused attention and reduced peripheral awareness and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion.
Hard Skill
Mandarin
Able to speak Mandarin
Hard Skill
Patient Care
The services rendered by members of the health profession and non-professionals under their supervision for the benefit of the patient.
Hard Skill
Patient Treatment
A patient is any recipient of health care services.
Soft Skill
Problem Solving
Problem solving consists of using generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, for finding solutions to problems.
Hard Skill
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is the use of psychological methods, particularly when based on regular personal interaction, to help a person change and overcome problems in desired ways.
Soft Skill
Written Communication
Working experience of Written Communication, which involves any type of message that makes use of the written word. Written communication is the most important and the most effective of any mode of business communication.
Field of Study Required
Field of study consists of a broad area of academic and skills qualifications that come under a similar branch of subject knowledge. In addition, courses offered under each field of study require similar academic entry requirements.