Identificación de competencias profesionales de psicólogos requeridas para su inserción laboral en los ámbitos de salud mental, empresarial y educativo, en el Ecuador

Abstract

This research originated from the need to know the workplace psychologists in Ecuador and professional skills required by the institutions, with the main objective to identify the professional skills of psychologists required for employment in clinical settings, business and education in Ecuador, very important issue today for professional psychology that wants to improve and compete in a business world full of challenges. Non experimental, transversal, exploratory, descriptive, qualitative and quantitative method was used for field research, collecting information through a diagnostic instrument skills required by the institutions to psychologists that was designed based on the list of competences proposed by the Europsy 2011, the same as it applied to a sample of 35 institutions within these three areas, comparing and analyzing the results obtained, representing by a professional profile nesting job skills that are most requested in each of these three fields Psychologist professional application also allowed identifying psychologist assessment as part of the institutions according to their specialization.