Practice case
Area 1 · Initial assessmentRead the scenario, then work each section as you would on the exam. When you check a section you see every option's weight and reasoning. A mock exam shows nothing until the end.
Scenario
EfuaUniversity counselling service, Thunder Bay
You are a Registered Psychotherapist at a university counselling service in Thunder Bay. Efua, 19, a first-year student in residence, is far from her Pentecostal family; her parents are from Ghana.
She has barely slept for two weeks. Her calculus slides, she says, hold hidden messages: she has been chosen and is being watched. She thinks two students on her floor talk about her. She asks you whether she is going crazy.
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About this case
A clinical simulation in the format of the CRPO Registration Examination: 6 sections, 2 Information Gathering and 4 Decision Making, about 15 minutes. Each section unfolds what happens next; every selection is final, and every option is weighted from +3 to -3, as on the exam.
Exam blueprint
It also draws on Area 6 (Professional practice) and Area 2 (Working relationship).
Competencies it exercises
- 4.4Conduct an appropriate risk assessment
- 4.5Structure and facilitate the therapeutic process
- 4.2Establish and maintain core conditions for therapy
- 3.1Comply with legal and professional obligations
- 1.5Integrate knowledge of human and cultural diversity
- 1.3Integrate knowledge of comparative psychotherapy relevant to practice
From CRPO’s Entry-to-Practice Competency Profile, most exercised first.
Practice standards its reasoning cites
- Standard 1.9Referrals
- Standard 3.3Communicating Client Care
New to the format? How the exam works explains the sections and the scoring. What the lab covers maps every standard and competency to its cases.