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Community Psychologist
OFO Code: 263408
Last checked 3 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 263408
- Occupation
- Community Psychologist
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- PROFESSIONALS
- Unit group
- 2634 · Psychologists
Official description
Psychologists research into and study the mental processes and behaviour of human beings as individuals or in groups, and apply this knowledge to promote personal, social, educational or occupational adjustment and development.
More official OFO detail
- Preparing scholarly papers and reports
- Conducting counselling or therapeutic interviews with individuals and groups, and providing follow-up services
- Analyzing the effect of heredity, social, occupational and other factors on individual thought and behaviour
- Planning and carrying out tests to measure mental, physical and other characteristics such as intelligence, abilities, aptitudes, potentialities, etc., interpreting and evaluating results, and providing advice
- Conducting surveys and research studies on job design, work groups, morale, motivation, supervision and management
- Developing theories, models and methods to interpret and describe human behaviour
- Studying psychological factors in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental illnesses and emotional or personality disorders, and conferring with related professionals
- Maintaining required contacts, such as those with family members, educational authorities or employers, and recommending possible solutions to, and treatment of, problems
- Formulating achievement, diagnostic and predictive tests for use by teachers in planning methods and content of instruction
2. Demand status
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
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10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Planned
- DHET Occupations in High Demand · Planned
- Critical Skills List · Planned
- QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Planned
- Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Planned
- SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Planned