Practice case
Area 2 · Working 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
Vivian and TheoSolo private practice, Owen Sound
You are a Registered Psychotherapist in solo practice in Owen Sound. Vivian Lam, 40, has booked a first couple session with her husband, Theo, 43, three weeks after finding his messages to a woman from his work. Your couples paperwork has not gone out.
The day before, Theo phones alone: 'There's something Viv doesn't know. Can I tell you now, just between us?'
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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 3 (Therapeutic relationship), Area 6 (Professional practice) and Area 1 (Initial assessment).
Competencies it exercises
- 4.4Conduct an appropriate risk assessment
- 4.1Orient client to therapist's practice
- 4.2Establish and maintain core conditions for therapy
- 4.5Structure and facilitate the therapeutic process
- 3.1Comply with legal and professional obligations
- 3.2Apply an ethical decision making process
From CRPO’s Entry-to-Practice Competency Profile, most exercised first.
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