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Preparation

The entry-to-practice Registration Examination (“The Standard”) is computer-based, simulation-style, and competency-based. It requires that test-takers apply their psychotherapy-based knowledge, skills, and attributes to therapeutic situations. The Competency Profile to which the Examination is aligned, will be most helpful to the preparation process and is available at no cost on your regulatory college’s website. This profile provides the competency areas on which candidates will be tested.

COMPASS provides a “navigational tutorial” which uses the testing platform. It contains two simulations unrelated to psychotherapy. It is designed solely to provide an opportunity for individuals to practice navigating the testing platform and using its features. The navigational tutorial is made available to all registered candidates.

COMPASS also offers a downloadable competency-based case study workbook at no cost to support competency-based processes.

COMPASS offers an optional, single-use, short practice exam (4 simulations) for registered candidates only using the same platform, protocols, and proctors used for the Registration Examination (associated fee).

Any materials that candidates may wish to use to prepare for the Examination are entirely at their discretion; typically, candidates use textbooks and other materials that were assigned to them during their post-secondary education in the field of psychotherapy as reminders, since these products were initially used to teach the competency areas for the profession.

COMPASS does not endorse specific authors or study materials in relation to the Registration Examination.