Occupation Atlaseducational psychologist
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/4f5bc9a5-e989-409b-bfb5-973b472163cd
educational psychologist
Educational psychologists are psychologists employed by educational institutions to provide psychological and emotional support to students in need. They are specialised in the provision of direct support and interventions to students, conducting psychological testing and assessment, and consulting with families, teachers and other school-based student support professionals, such as school social workers and educational counsellors, about the students. They may also work with the school administration to improve practical support strategies in order to improve the students' well-being.
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Job Zone
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Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed
Extensive preparation. Usually a graduate degree, with extensive skill, knowledge and experience — many of these occupations expect more than five years of experience.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
SICSocial · Investigative · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social6.77
- I Investigative5.00
- C Conventional4.01
- A Artistic3.31
- E Enterprising2.82
- R Realistic1.00
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from School Psychologists (19-3034.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (24)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- action research
- adolescent psychological development
- apply crisis intervention
- communicate with youth
- consult student's support system
- counsel students
- crisis intervention
- developmental psychology
- diagnose education problems
- diagnose psychiatric symptoms
- interpret psychological tests
- liaise with educational staff
- liaise with educational support staff
- listen actively
- monitor student's behaviour
- monitor therapeutic progress
- perform educational testing
- psychological counselling methods
- psychology
- school psychology
- social development
- test for behavioural patterns
- test for emotional patterns
- use psychoeducation
Optional (21)
- assessment processes
- assist in the organisation of school events
- behavioural disorders
- carry out psychiatric assessment of child
- communicate about youth's well-being
- communication disorders
- conduct psychological research
- consultation
- education law
- guarantee students' safety
- keep up-to-date with training subjects
- learning difficulties
- learning needs analysis
- oversee extra-curricular activities
- psychiatric disorders
- publish academic research
- scientific research methodology
- secondary school procedures
- show consideration for student's situation
- support children's wellbeing
- write research proposals
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 24 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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8 shared · 69 more of its owncounsel students, crisis intervention, consult student's support system, monitor student's behaviour
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learning mentor
7 shared · 10 more of its owncounsel students, consult student's support system, monitor student's behaviour, communicate with youth
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health psychologist
7 shared · 75 more of its owninterpret psychological tests, test for behavioural patterns, test for emotional patterns, psychological counselling methods
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social pedagogue
5 shared · 39 more of its ownsocial development, adolescent psychological development, communicate with youth, psychology
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