Practice case
Area 7 · SupervisionRead 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
MarcusCommunity counselling agency, Windsor
You are a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) at a Windsor agency. Your supervision is a weekly group of six led by Elaine, a couples therapist.
Marcus Delisle, 44, has seen you for eleven months for anxiety after a forklift accident at the plant. Lately he loses time, and his voice sometimes changes. You have no dissociation training and, fearing you look out of your depth, have not raised him.
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About this case
A clinical simulation in the format of the CRPO Registration Examination: 7 sections, 2 Information Gathering and 5 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 6 (Professional practice), Area 3 (Therapeutic relationship) and Area 1 (Initial assessment).
Competencies it exercises
- 3.5Obtain clinical supervision or consultation
- 3.1Comply with legal and professional obligations
- 4.5Structure and facilitate the therapeutic process
- 2.1Use effective professional communication
- 4.1Orient client to therapist's practice
- 4.6Refer client
From CRPO’s Entry-to-Practice Competency Profile, most exercised first.
Practice standards its reasoning cites
- Standard 1.9Referrals
- Standard 2.1Seeking Consultation, Clinical Supervision, and Referral
- Standard 3.1Confidentiality
- Standard 3.2Consent
- Standard 4.1Providing Clinical Supervision
- Standard 4.2Practising with Clinical Supervision
- Standard 5.1Clinical Records
- 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.