CLEE Study Guide 2026
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📋 CLEE Exam Format at a Glance
📚 CLEE Topics to Study (22)
✍️ Sample CLEE Questions & Answers
1. A therapist receives a friend request from a current client on a social media platform. What is the most ethical course of action?
Accepting a client's social media friend request creates a dual relationship, blurring professional boundaries and potentially exposing the client to personal information about the therapist, or vice versa. This can compromise the therapeutic relationship and client confidentiality. Ethically, therapists must maintain clear professional boundaries, which includes separating personal and professional online interactions to protect the client and the therapeutic process.
2. Under California law, when is a therapist legally REQUIRED (not merely permitted) to break confidentiality for a suicidal client?
California law permits therapists to breach confidentiality for suicidal clients but does not universally mandate it; therapists must exercise clinical judgment based on imminence and severity.
3. A resident in your care tells you that he does not like his current physician and wishes to be seen by another doctor. Your response to this should be ____.
Residents have the right to choose their physician. If a resident expresses dissatisfaction and wishes to change doctors, the nursing assistant's role is to advocate for them and facilitate their request through appropriate channels. This typically involves contacting the social worker or Registered Nurse (RN), who can then guide the resident through the process of changing physicians, respecting their autonomy.
4. A client with a serious mental illness lacks capacity to provide informed consent. The therapist should:
When a client lacks decisional capacity, therapists must seek consent from a legally authorized representative (LAR) such as a conservator or authorized family member.
5. How many hours of the 3,000 required supervision hours for MFT licensure must be direct supervisor contact?
California Business and Professions Code §4980.43 requires at least 104 hours of direct supervisor contact (individual or group) within the 3,000 supervised hours.
6. Regarding the duty to report under CANRA, a therapist's suspicion of child sexual abuse must be reported:
CANRA does not require a direct disclosure or physical evidence; reasonable suspicion from any source — including behavioral observations — is sufficient.