Basic competencies
- Students must have demonstrated knowledge and understanding in an area of study that is at the core of general secondary education and is often at a level that, although supported by advanced textbooks, also includes some aspects that imply knowledge from the cutting-edge of their field of study.
- Students must know how to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and possess the competencies that are usually demonstrated through the development and defence of arguments and problem-solving within their area of study.
- Students must have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data—usually within their area of study—to make judgments that include a reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues.
- Students must be able to convey information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
- Students must have developed the learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.
- Ability to understand the functions, characteristics and limitations of the different theoretical models of psychology in the field of health psychology.
- Ability to understand the basic principles of the different psychological processes in the field of health psychology.
- Ability to understand the processes and main stages of psychological development throughout the life cycle as they relate to normality and abnormality in the field of health psychology.
- Ability to understand the biological basis of human behaviour and psychological functions.
- Ability to understand the psychosocial principles of the functioning of groups and organisations.
- Ability to understand the social and anthropological dimension of the human being, including the historical and sociocultural factors involved in human psychological configuration.
- Ability to understand different methods of evaluation, diagnosis and psychological treatment in different applied fields of health psychology.
- Ability to understand different research designs, procedures for formulating and testing hypotheses and interpreting results and being able to apply them to the field of health psychology.
- Ability to understand the different fields of application of psychology and having the expertise necessary to impact on and promote the quality of life of individuals, groups, communities and organisations in the educational, clinical, health work, organisation, and community contexts.
Cross-disciplinary competencies
- Autonomous learning: Ability to choose the strategies, tools and schedule you consider most effective for autonomous learning and implementing what you have learned.
- Self-confidence: Ability to assess one’s own results, performance and capabilities with the inner conviction that we are capable of handling the challenges we are faced with.
- Ability to analyse and synthesise: students are able to break down complex situations into their constituent parts, and evaluate other alternatives and perspectives in order to find optimal solutions. Synthesis seeks to reduce complexity in order to better understand it and/or solve problems.
- Ability to apply knowledge to practice by using the knowledge acquired during studies in situations as similar as possible to the reality of the profession.
- Information management: Ability to search, select, analyse and integrate information from diverse sources.
- Initiative and entrepreneurial spirit: Ability to undertake difficult or random actions with resolution. Ability to anticipate problems, propose improvements and persevere in achieving them. Preference for assuming and carrying out activities.
- Planning and time management: Ability to set goals and choose the means to achieve those goals using time and resources effectively.
- Critical reasoning: Ability to analyse an idea, phenomenon or situation from different perspectives and take an approach based on rigorous and argued objectivity rather than intuition.
- Problem-solving: Ability to find a solution to a confusing issue or a complicated situation without a pre-defined solution, which makes it more difficult to solve.
- Innovation and creativity: Ability to propose and develop new and original solutions that add value to problems posed, even in areas other than the problem itself.
- Responsibility: Ability to meet commitments with oneself and others when performing a task and working towards a set of objectives within the learning process. Existing capacity in every subject to recognise and accept the consequences of a freely performed act.
- Decision-making: Ability to make a choice between existing alternatives or ways to effectively solve different situations or problems.
- Teamwork: Ability to integrate and actively collaborate with other people, areas and/or organisations to achieve common objectives.
- Use of information and communication technologies (ICT): Ability to effectively use information and communication technologies as a tool for searching, processing and storing information, as well as for developing communication skills.
Specific competencies
- Ability to analyse the needs and demands of the function’s intended beneficiaries in different contexts.
- Ability to establish the goals of psychological action in different contexts, proposing and negotiating the goals with the intended beneficiaries and stakeholders.
- Ability to plan and conduct an interview.
- Ability to describe and measure variables (personality, intelligence and other aptitudes, behaviours, etc.) and cognitive, emotional, psychobiological and behavioural processes.
- Ability to identify differences, problems and needs.
- Ability to make diagnoses according to the criteria of the profession.
- Ability to describe and measure interaction processes, group dynamics and group and inter-group structures.
- Ability to identify group and inter-group problems and needs.
- Ability to describe and measure interaction processes, organisational dynamics and organisational and inter-organisational structures.
- Ability to identify organisational and inter-organisational problems and needs.
- Ability to analyse the context in which individual behaviour and group and organisational processes take place.
- Ability to select and manage tools, products and services and to identify the stakeholders.
- Ability to design and adapt instruments, products and services according to the requirements and restrictions.
- Ability to contrast and validate instruments, products and services (whether prototypes or pilot tests).
- Ability to define objectives and draw up a plan for intervention in accordance with its purpose (prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, integration, monitoring, etc.).
- Ability to select the appropriate psychological intervention techniques to achieve objectives.
- Expertise in strategies and techniques to involve the intended beneficiaries in the intervention.
- Ability to apply strategies and methods of direct intervention to the intended beneficiaries: psychological advice, therapy, negotiation, mediation, etc.
- Ability to apply strategies and methods of direct intervention to different contexts: construction of healthy settings, etc.
- Ability to apply strategies and methods of indirect intervention through third parties: counselling, training of trainers and other actors.
- Ability to plan the evaluation of programmes and interventions.
- Ability to select and develop indicators and metrics to evaluate programmes and interventions.
- Ability to measure and obtain relevant data for the evaluation of interventions.
- Ability to analyse and interpret the results of the evaluation.
- Ability to provide feedback to the intended beneficiaries in an appropriate and accurate manner.
- Ability to produce oral and written reports.
- Ability to understand and comply with the deontological obligations of psychology.
- Ability to develop the profession using the English and/or Spanish language, both for specialised and non-specialised audiences.
