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
MargoCommunity counselling agency, Sudbury
You are a Registered Psychotherapist at a Sudbury agency; your supervisor is in two days a week. Twenty-five minutes into a first session for 'burnout', Margo Lefebvre, mother of Étienne and Camille, says her partner Dany 'yanked' Étienne up the stairs by the arm last week. There was a mark next morning. Étienne is wetting the bed again. 'Please don't write that down. Dany is not an abuser.'
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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 3 (Therapeutic relationship).
Competencies it exercises
- 4.4Conduct an appropriate risk assessment
- 4.5Structure and facilitate the therapeutic process
- 3.1Comply with legal and professional obligations
- 3.8Assist client with needs for advocacy and support
- 1.5Integrate knowledge of human and cultural diversity
- 4.1Orient client to therapist's practice
From CRPO’s Entry-to-Practice Competency Profile, most exercised first.
Practice standards its reasoning cites
- Standard 5.1Clinical Records
- Standard 5.2Requests for Reports
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.