What To Do After Obtaining The General Sanitary Master’s Degree?
The career and professional path of Psychology is very branched. Psychology has applications in so many areas that, for people studying this career, it is difficult to know what to focus on once finished. And, at least in Spanish territory, if you want to practice as a clinical psychologist, you have two options: study the Resident Internal Psychologist (PIR) exams to work in public health, or study the General Health Master’s Degree.
The General Sanitary Master is a postgraduate program in Psychology that provides comprehensive training for clinical practice in the field of mental health. It is primarily focused on the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders, training students to offer psychotherapy, crisis intervention and psychological evaluations. This maser offers tools to address a variety of emotional and mental issues for clinical, healthcare, and community settings.
Normally lasting two years, the General Health Master’s Degree meets the requirements for health certification, allowing professional practice in the health sector. However, it does not open the door to public health, which can only be accessed through the aforementioned PIR.
But, What are all the doors that the General Health Master’s Degree opens? What can you do when you finish it? In this article, we are going to answer these doubts and review the professional opportunities of this graduate program that is so in demand in this field.
Without further ado, we are going to discuss each and every one of the possible professional opportunities as a clinical psychologist that generates the General Health Master’s degree.
The best-known and probably also the most in-demand option is to work as a self-employed clinical psychologist, working in a private psychological practice. You can find work in these types of queries working together with a team of therapists and in a shared consultation space. There are also online psychological consultation services that can be accessed with this qualification.
2. Set up your own practice
In a similar way to the previous professional opportunity, a person qualified with the General Health Master’s Degree can also create their own psychological consultation. To do this, you must be self-employed, find a space to consult (or do it online) and, ultimately, generate an entire business. This work involves, in addition to therapeutic consultations, strategic and business, advertising and marketing skills to attract more patients.
3. Non-governmental social and health organizations
Although it is not a requirement in all cases, non-governmental social and health organizations that focus on care and help programs for, for example, drug addicts, terminally ill or chronically ill people require general health psychologists. To work in centers such as, for example, the Red Cross, you must have a health license and be registered as a health psychologist. In these cases, you will serve people with this problem who are referred to these centers and organizations, generally by their health and primary care centers.
4. Family and patient associations
Family and patient associations are groups made up of people who suffer from a specific physical illness or psychological disorder, such as Alzheimer’s, cancer, problems in child development or rare diseases. These require, in some cases, psychological attention, and for this a health psychologist is necessary. In these associations, The clinical psychologist develops both individual and group therapies and including family care as essential for building psychological resilience and coping with the change derived from experiencing these diseases or disorders.
Rehabilitation centers can be focused on people with neuronal damage, health or disability problems, psychosocial difficulties and addictive problems, among others. In them there are normally temporary stays for people with some of these problems, who require rehabilitation and a concrete improvement in some of these aspects to return to their daily lives.
Health psychologists are responsible for focusing on the psychological, emotional and psychosocial component of any of these problems.
6. Child development and early care centers
Child development and early care centers are focused on identifying and resolving physical and psychological health problems they may be experiencing. boys and girls with developmental problems. These children require specific centers to promote healthy development that is adapted to their specific situation, for which psychological intervention is necessary.
7. Nursing homes
Clinical and health psychologists are necessary in nursing homes to help residents cope with the emotional and psychological problems derived from aging. These people may experience problems related to cognitive decline, loneliness, loss of loved ones and physical abilities. A health psychologist is responsible for reducing the negative and significant long-term impact that these experiences can have on them.
8. Psychological research
As in any other branch of knowledge, the General Sanitary Master’s degree also opens the doors to a career in scientific and university research. In this, psychologists can develop research to discover new therapeutic techniques or approaches in addition to testing the effectiveness or effects of some of them.
A career in research can begin in research centers (public or private) and in university institutions, with, for example, completing a doctoral program.
In Spain, the General Health Master’s Degree in Psychology provides necessary and mandatory training to work as a psychologist in the field of health outside the branch of specialization in Clinical Psychology through the PIR. This master’s degree is crucial to respond to the growing needs for psychological care applied to patients; However, it is not enough, and every psychotherapist must continue training to maintain an updated professional profile adapted to the demands of day-to-day life when moving from theory to practice.
In this sense, the Master in Integrative Psychotherapy offered by Instituto Mensalus It is a very good way to learn and internalize the applied principles of psychological therapy from professionals and in a context of daily patient care. This specialization program has face-to-face and online modalities, and upon completion allows you to obtain a degree from the Nebrija University.
