🌿HPCSA Boards Study Hub
🌱 Intern Educational Psychologist Boards Prep

Your calm little study cockpit.

Built around your important notes and the confirmed HPCSA board exam date: 7 October 2026. Track revision, practise ethical reasoning and build case-answer muscle.

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Notes

Condensed board notes from your uploaded material.

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Quiz

Board-style MCQs with immediate explanations.

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Cases

Practise the exact kind of applied reasoning boards love.

Topic area progress

Golden board answer formula

Risk → ethics/legal → formulation → action → consultation → documentation → follow-up. This keeps your answer focused, even when the case study is doing emotional parkour.

How to study with this site

Work through Notes first, tick Topics as you revise, use Flashcards for recall, then test yourself with Quiz and Cases. Your progress saves locally in your browser.

📚 Revision checklist

Boards topics, minus the spiral.

Tick topics as you revise them. The expanded list now includes exam strategy, HPCSA ethics, legislation, assessment, diagnosis, risk and intervention.

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🧠 Condensed notes

Study notes that actually behave.

These are organised for board-style answering: quick points first, then the exact “board angle” to remember under pressure.

Board notes

Condensed from your uploaded notes into exam-friendly chunks. Use the filter buttons to focus on one area.

🃏 Recall practice

Flip, answer, repeat.

The flashcards now cover ethics, legislation, assessment, diagnosis, formulation, risk and intervention from your notes.

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How to use

Click the card to flip it. Aim to answer out loud before checking. Yes, talking to your laptop is now professional development.

Tip

When you get one wrong, write a one-line case example for it.

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✅ Board-style MCQs

Practise the judgement call.

These questions are designed around common HPCSA board reasoning: risk, consent, test use, reporting, diagnosis and intervention.

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Goal

Choose the best ethical answer, then read the explanation. Boards love the “why”.

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🧩 Case vignettes

Train your board-exam brain.

These scenarios are based on the patterns in your notes: consent disputes, abuse, ADHD/mood/learning complexity, suicide risk, HIV considerations and scope concerns.

Case answer structure

1. Referral question
2. Risk/safety
3. Ethics/legal
4. Missing information
5. Formulation/diagnosis
6. Intervention/referral
7. Documentation/follow-up

How to practise

Type your answer before opening the guide. The answer saves locally in this browser so you can come back and cringe productively later.

🗓️ 7 October 2026 plan

A board prep timeline with fewer side quests.

Use this as your main pacing guide. Adjust it based on supervision, mock results and the topics that keep sneaking up behind you.

Exam date

7 October 2026

The plan works backwards from the confirmed date and keeps September for case practice instead of last-minute PDF archaeology.

Weekly rhythm

Suggested routine

3 focused sessions for notes, 2 short flashcard/quiz sessions, and 1 case answer per week until September. In September, flip that: cases become the main event.

Study timeline

2–12 Jul

Set up foundation

Read board guidelines, scope/identity, exam policy basics. Start topic checklist and flashcards.

13–26 Jul

Ethics core

Consent, assent, confidentiality, records, supervision, parental disputes and ALAN decision-making.

27 Jul–9 Aug

Legislation

Children’s Act, mandatory reporting, Bill of Rights, POPIA, school protocols, HIV ethical considerations.

10–23 Aug

Assessment

Sattler’s pillars, Form 207/208, system-based testing, test security, report writing and feedback.

24 Aug–6 Sep

Diagnosis and formulation

5 Ps, biopsychosocial/ecological formulation, differential diagnosis, ADHD, PTSD, adjustment disorder, HIV overlap.

7–20 Sep

Risk and intervention

Suicide risk, child abuse, sexual abuse/harassment protocol, therapeutic management plans and systemic intervention.

21–30 Sep

Case study sprint

Complete at least one full case answer every second day. Mark against the structure: risk, ethics/legal, formulation, intervention.

1–6 Oct

Final consolidation

Redo quizzes, revise weak topics, memorise key frameworks and practise timed outlines. No new resource rabbit holes.

7 Oct

Exam day

Breathe. Read carefully. Identify risk first. Answer like a calm, supervised, ethical professional.

🗂️ Source index

Know what fed the beast.

A tidy index of the uploaded materials used to build the expanded study hub.

Uploaded source pack index

This website uses your uploaded notes to create study content. I did not bundle the source PDFs/books into the website zip; keep your original files alongside the site if you want the full readings. This avoids turning your study hub into a 40 MB copyright lasagne.

Assessment
  • Jerome Sattler’s 4 Pillars of Assessment.pdf
  • Form 207 (2023) List of psychological tests.pdf
  • FORM 208 - Aug 2021.pdf
  • Position_Statement_SA_guidelines_for_System_Based_Testing.pdf
  • Categorised_Psychological_Tests.docx
  • Form 207 (2023) List of psychological tests (1).pdf
  • Jerome Sattler’s 4 Pillars of Assessment (1).pdf
Case Practice
  • Balancing the Constitutional Rights in a Case Study.pdf
  • SHORT CASE STUDIES 1.pdf
  • 1. CASE STUDY_ Mpho.pdf
  • Case Study read-through planner.pdf
  • 2. CASE STUDY_ David.pdf
  • 4. CASE STUDY_ Nkosi.pdf
  • 6. CASE STUDY_ April.pdf
  • 5. CASE STUDY_ Lerato.pdf
  • Case Study 2 (NALEDI).pdf
  • Case Study 6 (ENZO).pdf
  • Case Study 5 (KAYLEIGH).pdf
  • Case Study 1 (OFENTSE) (1).pdf
  • Case Study 3 (AISHA).pdf
Diagnosis / Risk
  • ADHD Diagnosis Cheat Sheet.pdf
  • The six-step differential diagnosis tool.pdf
  • suicide.pdf
  • POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD) DSM-V DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA.pdf
  • ADHD symptoms.pdf
  • Adjustment Disorder DSM-V Criteria.pdf
  • HIV Positive Clients Considerations.pdf
  • Booklet_6_Gen_Ethical_Guidelines_for_Management_of_Patients_with_HIV_v2.pdf
  • DSM-5 Handbook of Differential Diagnosis.pdf
  • APA, 2022 DSM 5 TR.pdf
Ethics / Legislation / HPCSA
  • ANNEXURE 12 x LEGISLATION.pdf
  • CALLED TO WITNESS - Alfred Alan.pdf
  • Annexure 12.pdf
  • Example of balancing constitutional rights.pdf
  • REPORTING CHILD ABUSE.pdf
  • Policy_on_Business_Practices.pdf
  • Bill of Rights.pdf
  • HPCSA-Ethical-Code-of-Professional-Conduct (1).pdf
  • Booklet_9_Keeping_of_Patient_Records_Review Draft_vSept_2022.pdf
  • ALAN Ethical Decision-making.pdf
  • PSYCHOLOGY newsletter 2023 (Parental Consent).pdf
  • Sexual Abuse and Harassment in Schools.pdf
  • Abuse No More WCED.pdf
  • ANNEXURE 12 x LEGISLATION (1).pdf
  • Annexure 12 (2).pdf
Formulation / Intervention
  • 5 Ps and Biopsychosocial model.pdf
  • 3 phases to a Therapeutic Management Plan (Updated Version).pdf
  • 5P’s of the BioPsychoSocial Model.pdf
General
  • Minimum_standards-Educational_Psychology.pdf
  • Law and Ethics in Psychology - Alfred Allan.pdf
  • Board Exam Guidelines (Ed Psych) Jan 2024 Revised.pdf
  • 8425ef17-3025-4832-a9e6-7b206b713b4c.pdf
  • 8a8ede12-6198-4e2c-9921-30003945aaa0.pdf
  • e2790e8f-7f09-4b0c-a5fd-722e369e4d98.pdf