Practice case
Area 4 · Working towards changeRead 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
OwenSolo private practice, Oshawa
You are a Registered Psychotherapist in private practice in Oshawa. Owen Prentice, 46, has had eleven weekly sessions of cognitive behavioural therapy for low mood. His mood ratings match session one, his thought records come back blank, and his goal is 'to feel normal again.'
Today he rates his mood without looking: 'Same as always. But I like coming here. It's the only hour nobody wants anything off me.'
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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 14 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 3 (Therapeutic relationship) and Area 6 (Professional practice).
Competencies it exercises
- 4.5Structure and facilitate the therapeutic process
- 3.4Evaluate and enhance professional practice
- 4.2Establish and maintain core conditions for therapy
- 1.1Integrate a theory of human psychological functioning
- 1.3Integrate knowledge of comparative psychotherapy relevant to practice
- 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 3.2Consent
- Standard 3.5Unnecessary Treatment
- Standard 5.1Clinical Records
- Standard 6.1Fees
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.