CPLEE Exam Questions and Answers
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Clinical Supervisors - ✔✔(1) Supervisors are required to complete six hours of
supervision coursework every two years
(2) Must be licensed psychologists only
(3) Must provide a minimum of one hour of individual, face-to-face supervision to each
intern each week.
5150 Hold - ✔✔Individual can be hospitalized up to 72 hours without notifying
him/her about the right to a certification review hearing.
Child Sexual Abuse Reporting - ✔✔A 17-year-old who is a victim of rape.
Specifically, you must report sexual intercourse (statutory rape) with a child under age
16 when the perpetrator is age 21 years or older, even if the sexual activity is
consensual, nonabusive, and noncoercive.
You would have to report this if the other party was 10 or more years older than the 15
year old. Whether consensual or not, lewd or lascivious acts with a child 14 or 15 years
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,of age when the perpetrator is 10 or more years older than the child is reportable as
child abuse.
Child Physical Abuse Reporting - ✔✔(1) Reports of suspected child abuse or neglect
shall be made by mandated reporters to any police department or sheriff's department,
not including a school district police or security department, county probation
department, if designated by the county to receive mandated reports, or the county
welfare department.
(2) The mandated reporter shall make a report to the agency immediately or as soon as
is practicably possible by telephone, and the mandated reporter shall prepare and send
a written report thereof within 36 hours of receiving the information concerning the
incident.
Information Included in Child Abuse Reports - ✔✔(1) Reports of suspected child abuse
or neglect ... shall include, IF KNOWN: the name, business address, and telephone
number of the mandated reporter, and the capacity that makes the person a mandated
reporter; the child's name and address, present location, and, where applicable, school,
grade, and class; the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of the child's parents or
guardians; the information that gave rise to the reasonable suspicion of child abuse or
neglect and the source or sources of that information; and the name, address, telephone
number, and other relevant personal information about the person or persons who
might have abused or neglected the child.
(2) The mandated reporter shall make a report even if some of this information is not
known or is uncertain to him or her.
Discussing Fees - ✔✔Discuss the fee with the client as soon as possible.
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,Consent in Custody Evaluations - ✔✔Whenever one parent does not give consent (or
withdraws consent) for an evaluation in a custody case, the psychologist should seek
guidance from the court on how to proceed.
Holder of Privledge - ✔✔The patient when he has no guardian or conservator, (b) the
patient's guardian or conservator, or (c) the personal representative of a patient who is
deceased.
Sharing Published Data - ✔✔After research results are published, psychologists do not
withhold the data on which their conclusions are based from other competent
professionals who seek to verify the substantive claims through reanalysis and who
intend to use such data only for that purpose, provided that the confidentiality of the
participants can be protected and unless legal rights concerning proprietary data
preclude their release.
After publishing the results, however, you would be required to comply with a request
for the data by a "competent professional" as long as the request is for the purpose of re-
analyzing the data and the confidentiality of the participants can be protected.
72-Hour Hold - ✔✔(1) Any person who, as the result of a mental disorder, is a danger to
self or others or is gravely disabled can be held in an approved facility for treatment
and assessment.
(2) After a 72-hour hold, an individual may be held for an additional 14 days if it is
determined that he/she is still a danger to self or others or is gravely disabled.
However, Section 5254 also requires that the individual be notified that he/she is
entitled to a certification review hearing, to be held within 4 days of the date on which
the person is certified for a period of intensive treatment.
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, (3) Client be must be informed that he/she is entitled to a certification review hearing
within the first 4 of the 14-day hold.
Release of Test Data - ✔✔Refrain from releasing test data to protect a client/patient or
others from substantial harm or misuse or misrepresentation of the data or the test.
Psychologists are required to release test data except in certain legally defined
situations that permit them to deny a client or the parents of a minor client access to the
client's record.
Minor Clients - psychologists may refuse to provide parents or legal guardians access to
a minor's records (including test scores) when they determine "that access to the patient
records requested by the representative [parent or legal guardian] would have a
detrimental effect on the provider's professional relationship with the minor patient or
the minor's physical safety or psychological well-being.
Posting Notices - ✔✔Business and Professions Code requires psychologists to post the
following notice in a conspicuous location in their place of business: "NOTICE TO
CONSUMERS: The Department of Consumer Affair's Board of Psychology receives and
responds to questions and complaints regarding the practice of psychology.
Translator Services - ✔✔(1) avoid delegating such work to persons who have a multiple
relationship with those being served that would likely lead to exploitation or loss of
objectivity;
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Clinical Supervisors - ✔✔(1) Supervisors are required to complete six hours of
supervision coursework every two years
(2) Must be licensed psychologists only
(3) Must provide a minimum of one hour of individual, face-to-face supervision to each
intern each week.
5150 Hold - ✔✔Individual can be hospitalized up to 72 hours without notifying
him/her about the right to a certification review hearing.
Child Sexual Abuse Reporting - ✔✔A 17-year-old who is a victim of rape.
Specifically, you must report sexual intercourse (statutory rape) with a child under age
16 when the perpetrator is age 21 years or older, even if the sexual activity is
consensual, nonabusive, and noncoercive.
You would have to report this if the other party was 10 or more years older than the 15
year old. Whether consensual or not, lewd or lascivious acts with a child 14 or 15 years
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,of age when the perpetrator is 10 or more years older than the child is reportable as
child abuse.
Child Physical Abuse Reporting - ✔✔(1) Reports of suspected child abuse or neglect
shall be made by mandated reporters to any police department or sheriff's department,
not including a school district police or security department, county probation
department, if designated by the county to receive mandated reports, or the county
welfare department.
(2) The mandated reporter shall make a report to the agency immediately or as soon as
is practicably possible by telephone, and the mandated reporter shall prepare and send
a written report thereof within 36 hours of receiving the information concerning the
incident.
Information Included in Child Abuse Reports - ✔✔(1) Reports of suspected child abuse
or neglect ... shall include, IF KNOWN: the name, business address, and telephone
number of the mandated reporter, and the capacity that makes the person a mandated
reporter; the child's name and address, present location, and, where applicable, school,
grade, and class; the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of the child's parents or
guardians; the information that gave rise to the reasonable suspicion of child abuse or
neglect and the source or sources of that information; and the name, address, telephone
number, and other relevant personal information about the person or persons who
might have abused or neglected the child.
(2) The mandated reporter shall make a report even if some of this information is not
known or is uncertain to him or her.
Discussing Fees - ✔✔Discuss the fee with the client as soon as possible.
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,Consent in Custody Evaluations - ✔✔Whenever one parent does not give consent (or
withdraws consent) for an evaluation in a custody case, the psychologist should seek
guidance from the court on how to proceed.
Holder of Privledge - ✔✔The patient when he has no guardian or conservator, (b) the
patient's guardian or conservator, or (c) the personal representative of a patient who is
deceased.
Sharing Published Data - ✔✔After research results are published, psychologists do not
withhold the data on which their conclusions are based from other competent
professionals who seek to verify the substantive claims through reanalysis and who
intend to use such data only for that purpose, provided that the confidentiality of the
participants can be protected and unless legal rights concerning proprietary data
preclude their release.
After publishing the results, however, you would be required to comply with a request
for the data by a "competent professional" as long as the request is for the purpose of re-
analyzing the data and the confidentiality of the participants can be protected.
72-Hour Hold - ✔✔(1) Any person who, as the result of a mental disorder, is a danger to
self or others or is gravely disabled can be held in an approved facility for treatment
and assessment.
(2) After a 72-hour hold, an individual may be held for an additional 14 days if it is
determined that he/she is still a danger to self or others or is gravely disabled.
However, Section 5254 also requires that the individual be notified that he/she is
entitled to a certification review hearing, to be held within 4 days of the date on which
the person is certified for a period of intensive treatment.
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, (3) Client be must be informed that he/she is entitled to a certification review hearing
within the first 4 of the 14-day hold.
Release of Test Data - ✔✔Refrain from releasing test data to protect a client/patient or
others from substantial harm or misuse or misrepresentation of the data or the test.
Psychologists are required to release test data except in certain legally defined
situations that permit them to deny a client or the parents of a minor client access to the
client's record.
Minor Clients - psychologists may refuse to provide parents or legal guardians access to
a minor's records (including test scores) when they determine "that access to the patient
records requested by the representative [parent or legal guardian] would have a
detrimental effect on the provider's professional relationship with the minor patient or
the minor's physical safety or psychological well-being.
Posting Notices - ✔✔Business and Professions Code requires psychologists to post the
following notice in a conspicuous location in their place of business: "NOTICE TO
CONSUMERS: The Department of Consumer Affair's Board of Psychology receives and
responds to questions and complaints regarding the practice of psychology.
Translator Services - ✔✔(1) avoid delegating such work to persons who have a multiple
relationship with those being served that would likely lead to exploitation or loss of
objectivity;
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