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
ZofiaHospital outpatient anxiety program, London
You are a Registered Psychotherapist in a London, Ontario anxiety clinic. After eleven weeks of graded exposure for panic disorder, Zofia Nowak, 45, now drives locally. She wants to drive alone to her daughter's in Toronto, but twice turned back at the first highway exit, with her husband Tomasz on speaker phone and lorazepam in her pocket.
She asks, 'Maybe I can't do highways. Can we work on something else?'
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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 5 (Separation and ending) and Area 1 (Initial assessment).
Competencies it exercises
- 4.5Structure and facilitate the therapeutic process
- 4.4Conduct an appropriate risk assessment
- 1.2Work within a framework based upon established psychotherapeutic theory
- 3.4Evaluate and enhance professional practice
- 4.2Establish and maintain core conditions for therapy
- 4.7Conduct an effective closure process
From CRPO’s Entry-to-Practice Competency Profile, most exercised first.
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