Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) · The workbook label maps to the HCPC's official Test of competence for applicants seeking registration as practitioner psychologists; it is not a separate examination title. The assessment is individually tailored to application gaps and the profession's Standards of proficiency, effective 1 September 2023, publication code 20230901POLPUB PYLSoP. Current assessment guidance was updated 5 December 2025. Supplementary Standards of conduct, performance and ethics took effect 1 September 2024. No fixed examination blueprint or percentage weights are published in the consulted guidance.

This original 20-question sample covers selected topics across the outline. It does not reproduce official exam questions or cover every tested topic.

• Test of competence
• Practitioner psychologists: Standards of proficiency
• Standards of conduct, performance and ethics
• Scope of practice
• Standards of continuing professional development
• Consent principles
• Maintaining your health and wellbeing
• Protecting the health and safety of others
• Equality, diversity and inclusion
• Key principles of confidentiality
• Communication
• Delegation
• Our expectations for your record keeping
• What is reflection?
• Maintaining professional boundaries
• Supervision
• Duty of candour
• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
• Treatment: Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
• Chapter 3: behaviour change
• What approvals and decisions do I need?
• Informing participants and seeking consent