ATTITUDE ASPECT

Competency 1: Ethics, Morality, Plurality, and Empathy

Able to carry out professional psychological activities in accordance with psychological ethics and standards of practice, demonstrating empathy toward individuals, groups, and communities with diverse cultures, backgrounds, and characteristics reflected in their spiritual and social lives, whether interacting with service users, colleagues, or other professions.

KNOWLEDGE/SCIENTIFIC MASTERY ASPECT

Competency 2: Psychological Concepts and Theories

Possesses adequate knowledge and understanding of:

1. Human beings as individuals and as part of an ecological system;

2. The philosophy, concepts, theories, methods, and practices of psychology related to the functioning and changes in human behavior throughout the lifespan from biological, psychological, social, and spiritual perspectives, both general and specific.

GENERAL WORK SKILLS ASPECT

Competency 3: General Skills

1. Able to work in the field of psychology and possess work competencies at least equivalent to the professional psychology occupational competency standards;

2. Able to make independent decisions in carrying out professional psychology work based on logical, critical, systematic, and creative thinking;

3. Able to document, store, audit, secure, and retrieve data and information for the purpose of developing professional psychology work outcomes;

4. Able to communicate ideas/arguments or innovative work that benefits professional development, which can be scientifically justified and ethically accountable, to the public, particularly the psychological professional community;

5. Able to critically evaluate work outcomes and decisions made in carrying out their duties, both by themselves and by colleagues;

6. Able to lead a team in solving problems in the field of professional psychology;

7. Able to collaborate with other professionals in related fields to solve problems in professional psychology work;

8. Able to develop and maintain professional networks with the psychological professional community and service users;

9. Accountable for work in their professional field in accordance with the psychological code of ethics;

10. Able to independently enhance their learning capacity;

11. Able to contribute to the evaluation or development of national policies aimed at improving the quality of professional psychology education or developing national policies in the field of professional psychology;

12. Able to identify personal strengths and weaknesses (self-evaluation) and remain open to feedback regarding personal development.

SPECIFIC SKILLS ASPECT

Competency 4: Communication Skills

Able to establish good rapport and professional work communication with:

1.        service users;

2.        significant others of service users;

3.        related professions;

4.        supervisors.

Competency 5: Psychological Assessment Skills

Able to conduct assessments and diagnose psychological problems in individuals, groups, organizations, and/or communities in healthcare, education, workplace, and community service settings based on the psychological code of ethics and empirical evidence, which includes:

1.        Able to establish assessment objectives;

2.        Able to identify problems/needs;

3.        Determine assessment methods encompassing observation, interviews, psychological tests, and other methods, based on consideration of the advantages and limitations of those assessment methods;

4.        Conduct administration, scoring, and interpretation in assessments;

5.        Able to integrate assessment data as a basis for developing psychological dynamics;

6.        Draw conclusions or establish diagnoses based on assessment results and psychological theories;

Competency 6: Psychological Intervention Skills

Able to demonstrate knowledge and skills in intervention techniques based on the psychological code of ethics and empirical evidence, encompassing:

1.          PLANNING

i.          Able to establish intervention objectives and techniques at the preventive, promotive, and curative stages, including the ability to justify the relationship between the diagnosis and the selected intervention, based on psychological theories;

ii.          Able to plan preventive, promotive, and curative interventions to achieve outcomes in accordance with the examination objectives, based on knowledge of psychological intervention approaches, models, and techniques, taking into consideration the advantages and disadvantages of the proposed design.

2.        IMPLEMENTATION

i.          Able to implement psychological interventions at the preventive, promotive, and curative stages;

ii.          Provide implementation guidelines to relevant parties (those with an interest in the service user, for example: parents, teachers, superiors, management, etc.) that support the implementation of psychological interventions;

iii.          Able to apply several types of interventions such as Psychological First Aid (PFA), psychological consultation, psychoeducation, counseling, psychological training, and psychotherapy (such as behavior modification) to change behavior in individuals, groups, organizations, and/or communities in healthcare, education, workplace, and community service settings;

iv.          Able to integrate implementation methods that constitute the strengths (distinctive characteristics) of their respective study programs.

3.        EVALUATION

Able to evaluate intervention effectiveness by:

i.          Evaluating the intervention process;

ii.          Evaluating service users’ responses to the intervention;

iii.          Measuring changes in attitudes and behavior;

iv.          Revising problem formulations and intervention program designs, if necessary;

v.          Able to integrate evaluation methods that constitute the strengths (distinctive characteristics) of their respective study programs.

Competency 7: Ability to Communicate the Results of Psychological Assessment and Intervention

Able to communicate the results of psychological assessment and intervention orally and in writing in an informative, accurate, clear, systematic manner, and in accordance with the characteristics and needs of service users.

Competency 8: Psychological Ethics and Law

1.        Understand the Indonesian Psychological Code of Ethics and be able to apply it in solving psychological problems;

2.        Be aware of the rights and scope of authority of their competencies, and not work beyond those rights and authority;

3.        Able to be accountable for work processes and outcomes based on the Indonesian Psychological Code of Ethics;

4.        Possess knowledge of applicable laws in providing psychological services, specifically those related to psychological problems associated with the law.