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
TeodorSolo private practice, Cambridge
You are a Registered Psychotherapist in Cambridge. Teodor Popescu, 34, came for low mood after his wife left. He leads worship at the Romanian Pentecostal church your family left after your father fell out with the elders. Your aunt still attends.
In session four he says, 'My mother told me about your father. The elders want me to step down for now. Should I walk away like he did?'
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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 5 (Separation and ending).
Competencies it exercises
- 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
- 3.2Apply an ethical decision making process
- 4.1Orient client to therapist's practice
- 1.4Integrate awareness of self in relation to professional role
From CRPO’s Entry-to-Practice Competency Profile, most exercised first.
Practice standards its reasoning cites
- Standard 1.6Conflict of Interest
- Standard 1.7Dual Relationships
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.