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Psychoeducators

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  • Job description
  • Advancement and mobility
  • Training and requirements
  • Main skills and characteristics
  • Personality profiles (RIASEC)
  • Additional information

Job description

These individuals intervene with people who are experiencing adjustment difficulties. Such difficulties manifest themselves on a behavioural level in their different living environments. They evaluate individuals’ adaptation in order to intervene effectively. They are self-employed or work in:

  • School environments
  • Integrated health and social services centres (CISSS)
  • Youth centres
  • Centres for the rehabilitation of intellectual disabilities and pervasive developmental disorders (CRDITED)
  • Community organizations

Environment

  • Controlled ambient temperature

Main tasks

  • Assess the psychosocial adaptation and adaptive capacities of individuals or groups.
  • Establish, propose, and implement programs and intervention plans.
  • Observe and analyze people interacting with their environment.
  • Organize, facilitate, and use people’s living environment to support them in their adaptation process.
  • Offer people information on health promotion and prevention of illness, accidents, and social problems.
  • Advise stakeholders from different backgrounds.
  • Play a preventive role with clients in difficulty.
  • Defuse crises or emergency situations, as required.

Advancement and mobility

  • Psychotherapy permit issued by the Ordre des psychologues du Québec allows Psychoeducators to bear the title of Psychotherapist and to practise psychotherapy.
  • Family mediation accreditation permit issued by the Ordre des travailleurs sociaux et des thérapeutes conjugaux et familiaux du Québec (OTSTCFQ [Quebec Order of Social Workers and Conjugal and Family Therapists]) allows Psychoeducators to use the title of Accredited Family Mediator.

Training and requirements

Formation

Most training programs are offered in French only.

University

Psychoeducation
Bachelor’s degree

Placement rate: 33.3%

64.5% of graduates pursue further studies

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Master’s degree

Placement rate: 91%

4.5% of graduates pursue further studies

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This discipline is taught in the following institutions:
  • Université de Montréal
  • Université de Sherbrooke
  • Université du Québec en Outaouais
  • Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
  • Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
  • Université Laval
  • McGill University

Also required

  • Membership in the Ordre des psychoéducateurs et psychoéducatrices du Québec (OPPQ [Quebec Order of Psychoeducators]).

Sometimes required

  • Training in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) may be required.

Main skills and characteristics

Skills

  • Active listening
  • Social perception
  • Data collection
  • Oral expression
  • Service oriented
  • Result evaluation
  • Written expression
  • Judgment and decision-making
  • Critical thought
  • Reading comprehension
  • Persuasion
  • Active learning
  • Learning strategies
  • Information processing
  • Coordination
  • Solving complex problems
  • Negotiation
  • System analysis
  • Teaching
  • Science
  • Operation analysis
  • Human resource management
  • Time management
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Abilities

  • Oral comprehension
  • Verbal skills
  • Awareness of issues
  • Written comprehension
  • Written expression
  • Inductive reasoning
  • Speech clarity
  • Deductive reasoning
  • Speech recognition
  • Idea generation
  • Selective attention
  • Classification
  • Information organization
  • Originality
  • Near vision
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Knowledge and attributes

  • Capacity to establish and maintain interpersonal relations
  • Capacity to work under pressure
  • Critical thinking
  • Sense of responsibility
  • Capacity to adapt
  • Capacity to work in a team
  • Commitment
  • Capacity to facilitate a group
  • Knowledge of psychology
  • Knowledge of therapy and counselling

Interests

  • Draft, communicate, and inform
  • Self-employment
  • Assist and advise
  • Teach or educate
  • Assist or care for people

Personality profiles (RIASEC)

Investigative
People with this profile prefer relying on theoretical knowledge before acting. They like observation, analysis and problem solving.
Social
People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
Artistic
People with this profile prefer to express their emotions and thoughts through various art forms. They like to use their imagination.
Additional information

Appellation d'emploi liée (à traduire)

Family, marriage and other related counsellors  (CNP 4153)

Skill type

Education, law and social, community and government services

Related occupations

  • Conseiller d'orientation
  • Educational counsellors
  • Family, marriage and other related counsellors
  • Managers in social, community and correctional services
  • Social and community service workers
  • Social workers
  • marriage and family therapist (MFT)
  • sexologist

See also

  • Glossary (PDF 229 Kb)
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Last update: April 28, 2023

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