Table 2.

Key competency in psychotherapy with its supporting competencies and their recommended assessment methods under the domains of knowledge, competence and performance, taken from the European framework for competencies in psychiatry

Supporting competencies	Knowledge Knowledge tests	Competence Clinical examinations	Performance In-training assessment
1.2.2.1 understand the theories that underpin standard accepted models of individual, group and family psychotherapies available for treatment of mental disorders	Oral examinations Written examinations
1.2.2.2 practise psychotherapy safely and effectively on the basis of values and the best evidence available			Document-based discussions Direct observations of procedures

Key competency 1.2 the psychiatrist is able to apply therapeutic and communication skills to effectively and empathically manage the spectrum of patient care problems as well as those of their carers