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
RosalindCommunity counselling agency, Belleville
You are a Registered Psychotherapist at a Belleville counselling agency. Eight months ago Rosalind Fitzgerald, 44, left her partner Doug, who checked her phone, controlled their money and once put his hands around her throat. Her daughter, Kayla, is her main support.
Today she says, 'You'll think I'm stupid. Doug's in a men's program. He's different. I'm moving back in at month's end.'
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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 1 (Initial assessment) and Area 7 (Supervision).
Competencies it exercises
- 4.4Conduct an appropriate risk assessment
- 4.2Establish and maintain core conditions for therapy
- 4.5Structure and facilitate the therapeutic process
- 4.3Ensure safe and effective use of self in the therapeutic relationship
- 1.4Integrate awareness of self in relation to professional role
- 1.5Integrate knowledge of human and cultural diversity
From CRPO’s Entry-to-Practice Competency Profile, most exercised first.
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