Licensing Exam Prep Articles

The Prep Room, Episode 13. 68:43. A licensure exam-prep podcast from ClinicalToolsCo. A stem describes a two-year-old who pushes his mother's hand away and shouts "Me do it!" while he struggles with his shoes. Half the room picks initiative versus g...

The Prep Room, Episode 12. 66:37. A licensure exam-prep podcast from ClinicalToolsCo. A stem gives you one line of counselor dialogue: "What would be different in your life if you didn't have this problem?" Half the room picks solution-focused brief...

The Prep Room, Episode 11. 26:52. A licensure exam-prep podcast from ClinicalToolsCo. A stem says: "A child points at a cookie on the counter and says 'cookie.' The therapist hands her the cookie." Half the room picks tact, because the cookie is rig...

The question: A screening instrument for a condition that affects 2 percent of the population correctly identifies 90 percent of the people who have it, and correctly clears 90 percent of the people who do not. A client screens positive. Roughly wha...

The question: A judge orders a parenting evaluation and appoints you to conduct it. At the start of the first meeting the parent says she would like what she tells you kept between the two of you. What is the most defensible response? A. Agree, beca...

A biopsychosocial assessment is the intake that looks at a person through three lenses at once: the body, the mind and the life around them. The model comes from George Engel, who argued in Science in 1977 that medicine needed to account for psychol...

Under the WPATH Standards of Care Version 8, adults need one opinion, not two, before starting gender-affirming hormones or surgery. That single change is the one most letter templates still get wrong, because so many were written under SOC-7. SOC-8...

Ethics is 13% of the BCBA exam: 22 of the 175 scored questions sit in Section E, Ethical and Professional Issues, on the 6th edition Test Content Outline. That understates it. Ethics judgment also turns up inside supervision, assessment and interven...

The Prep Room, Episode 1. 40:04. A licensure exam-prep podcast from ClinicalToolsCo. A child screams at the grocery checkout. Dad hands her a candy bar and the screaming stops. Over the next month Dad hands over candy faster and more often. Many can...

The Prep Room, Episode 2. 68:44. A licensure exam-prep podcast from ClinicalToolsCo. A candidate reads a stem: "A new depression scale correlates .85 with scores on the same scale given two weeks later." She sees the word "correlates" and picks "con...

The Prep Room, Episode 3. 47:20. A licensure exam-prep podcast from ClinicalToolsCo. A client arrives visibly intoxicated to a scheduled session. A candidate reads four options: confront the relapse, assess immediate safety, reschedule, call the spo...

The Prep Room, Episode 4. 59:13. A licensure exam-prep podcast from ClinicalToolsCo. A client tells his counselor, "I have HIV, and I haven't told my partner. We're not using protection." The candidate reads four options and picks "keep it confident...

The Prep Room, Episode 5. 61:59. A licensure exam-prep podcast from ClinicalToolsCo. A stem says: "A supervisor checks on a technician's data collection at unpredictable times, on average every twenty minutes. The technician's on-task behavior is st...

The Prep Room, Episode 6. 55:02. A licensure exam-prep podcast from ClinicalToolsCo. A parent is told her fourth grader earned a grade equivalent of 7.2 on a reading test. She asks whether her daughter should skip to seventh grade. A candidate readi...

The Prep Room, Episode 7. 50:26. A licensure exam-prep podcast from ClinicalToolsCo. A candidate opens the first case: a 34-year-old woman, three months of low mood after losing her job, poor sleep, a twelve-pound weight loss, and one line near the ...