Construction of the Psychologist interventive competence

Abstract

This article describes the interventive competence of the psychologist. For this, methods of theoretical level are used, such as analysis-synthesis, inductive-deductive and hermeneutic-dialectic, fundamentally. The epistemological foundations of this competence and its essential contents (knowledge, skills and values) are analyzed. It is concluded that the essential contents of interventive competence result from the integration between declarative and procedural knowledge; that the main skills are: understanding the history of the subject, explaining the subjective dynamics, theoretically and methodologically basing the intervention, predicting and anticipating the effect of the intervention, designing and applying intervention actions, and assessing the results of the psychological intervention; The main values are responsibility, professionalism, sense of belonging and commitment. To assess the process of training the values of psychologists, the following indicators are presented: relevance, efficiency, empathy and professional aesthetics.