Practice case
Area 3 · Therapeutic relationshipRead 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
IbrahimHospital outpatient mental health program, Hamilton
You are a Registered Psychotherapist in a hospital outpatient program. Ibrahim, 54, a machinist until a back injury, has been low and irritable since. In session eight, about the brother who dismisses him, you said: 'You choose to protect his version.' He missed session nine.
He arrives late, coat and gloves on: 'Last time you told me this is my own doing. I get enough of that at home.'
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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 16 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 2 (Working relationship), Area 4 (Working towards change) and Area 7 (Supervision).
Competencies it exercises
- 4.5Structure and facilitate the therapeutic process
- 3.4Evaluate and enhance professional practice
- 4.2Establish and maintain core conditions for therapy
- 1.5Integrate knowledge of human and cultural diversity
- 4.3Ensure safe and effective use of self in the therapeutic relationship
- 1.2Work within a framework based upon established psychotherapeutic theory
From CRPO’s Entry-to-Practice Competency Profile, most exercised first.
Practice standards its reasoning cites
- Standard 1.8Undue Influence and Abuse
- Standard 6.3Discontinuing Services
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.