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The Prep Room: Licensing Exam Prep for Clinicians

A licensure exam prep podcast from ClinicalToolsCo. Each episode takes one concept the exam likes to test, takes it apart, then runs ten exam-style questions with a pause before every answer so you can commit first. The questions and every rationale are written out on each episode page.

BCBA, EPPP, ASWB Clinical, NCE, NCMHCE and PMHNP, plus a retake episode for every exam. Free on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. The hosts are AI voices; every script is written and fact-checked by ClinicalToolsCo against the published exam content outline.

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The Prep Room Episode 1 cover: BCBA. Consequences and motivating operations.
The Prep Room Ep 1: BCBA: Consequences. Reinforcement, Punishment, Extinction, and Motivating Operations
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...
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The Prep Room Episode 2 cover: EPPP. Reliability and validity.
The Prep Room Ep 2: EPPP: Reliability and Validity. Which One Is the Question Really Asking About?
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...
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The Prep Room Episode 3 cover: ASWB Clinical. The what do you do FIRST questions.
The Prep Room Ep 3: ASWB Clinical: The "What Should the Social Worker Do FIRST" Questions
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...
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The Prep Room Episode 4 cover: NCE. Ethics, boundaries and confidentiality.
The Prep Room Ep 4: NCE: Ethics. Boundaries, Dual Relationships, Confidentiality and Its Limits
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...
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The Prep Room Episode 5 cover: BCBA. Schedules of reinforcement.
The Prep Room Ep 5: BCBA: Schedules of Reinforcement and How They Show Up in Vignettes
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...
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The Prep Room Episode 6 cover: EPPP. Test scores and what they mean.
The Prep Room Ep 6: EPPP: Test Scores and What the Numbers Mean. Standard Scores, Percentiles, Norms, and Item Analysis
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...
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The Prep Room Episode 7 cover: NCMHCE. One full case, walked through.
The Prep Room Ep 7: NCMHCE: How the Case Format Works, Walked Through One Full Case
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 ...
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The Prep Room Episode 8 cover: ASWB Clinical. Duty to warn and the limits of confidentiality.
The Prep Room Ep 8: ASWB Clinical: Duty to Warn, Mandated Reporting, and the Limits of Confidentiality
The Prep Room, Episode 8. 62:18. A licensure exam-prep podcast from ClinicalToolsCo. A social worker gets a subpoena for a client's records. She has been told her whole career that confidentiality is sacred, so she ignores it. Two weeks later she is...
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The Prep Room Episode 9 cover: PMHNP. Antipsychotics, NMS versus serotonin syndrome.
The Prep Room Ep 9: PMHNP: Antipsychotics and the Serious Adverse Effects You Have to Tell Apart
The Prep Room, Episode 9. 66:09. A licensure exam-prep podcast from ClinicalToolsCo. Two patients arrive at the emergency department on the same night. Both are febrile, both are confused, both are sweating and tachycardic. One started a high-dose a...
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The Prep Room Episode 10 cover: all exams. What to change before the retake.
The Prep Room Ep 10: Didn't Pass? What to Change Before the Retake. For Every Licensure Exam
The Prep Room, Episode 10. 51:37. A licensure exam-prep podcast from ClinicalToolsCo. A candidate fails her licensing exam by a handful of points. She opens the score report, sees "below" next to two domains, closes it, and decides the fix is to sta...
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