Practice case
Area 6 · Professional practiceRead 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
HoangGroup private practice, Windsor
You are a Registered Psychotherapist in a Windsor group practice, custodian of your own records, closing in ten weeks. Hoang Nguyen, 47, has seen you since a workplace assault, starting with three couple sessions with his wife.
His disability insurer wants a report and all your notes under an eight-month-old consent. Hoang wants his complete file for his lawyer. A colleague asks you to chart a safety plan she made.
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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 17 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 5 (Separation and ending) and Area 3 (Therapeutic relationship).
Competencies it exercises
- 3.7Maintain client records
- 2.1Use effective professional communication
- 3.1Comply with legal and professional obligations
- 3.10Establish business practices relevant to professional role
- 3.9Provide reports to third parties
- 4.1Orient client to therapist's practice
From CRPO’s Entry-to-Practice Competency Profile, most exercised first.
Practice standards its reasoning cites
- Standard 1.9Referrals
- Standard 3.1Confidentiality
- Standard 3.2Consent
- Standard 3.4Electronic Practice
- Standard 5.1Clinical Records
- Standard 5.2Requests for Reports
- Standard 5.3Issuing Accurate Documents
- Standard 5.5Financial Records
- Standard 5.6Record Storage, Security, and Retrieval
- Standard 6.3Discontinuing Services
- Standard 6.4Closing, Selling, or Relocating a Practice
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.