Practice case
Area 5 · Separation and endingRead 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
XimenaCommunity counselling agency, Chatham
You are a Registered Psychotherapist at a free Chatham counselling agency, leaving in six weeks to open a private practice. Agency policy lets clients follow you if they raise it and are also offered agency care.
Ximena Rojas, 34, has seen you for seven months for depression; her mother left when she was nine. When you tell her, she says, 'Everyone goes. Can I come with you? I'd pay.'
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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 6 (Professional practice) and Area 3 (Therapeutic relationship).
Competencies it exercises
- 4.5Structure and facilitate the therapeutic process
- 4.6Refer client
- 3.1Comply with legal and professional obligations
- 4.2Establish and maintain core conditions for therapy
- 4.4Conduct an appropriate risk assessment
- 4.7Conduct an effective closure process
From CRPO’s Entry-to-Practice Competency Profile, most exercised first.
Practice standards its reasoning cites
- Standard 1.9Referrals
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.