CLCP EXAM QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
CLCP Categories of expertise or 3 "Domains of Knowledge" - correct answer(1)
Assessing Client's Medical and Independent Living Needs (2) Vocational Assessment
(3) Consultant Services to the Legal System
Competency 1: Assessing Client's Medical Needs consists of: - correct
answerDetermine: cost of needed equipment, medical services. Determine needed
medical supplies. Identifies need for PT services. Determine adaptive equipment needs
& clients home furnishing needs. Specifies cost for needed home furnishings.
Competency 2: Vocational Assessment - correct answerGather work history. Identify the
need for long term voc/educational svs. Assess the client's need for vocation services.
Specify cost for long-term voc/educational svs.
Competency 3: Consultant Services to the Legal System - correct answerDetermine
cost of needed social services. Make referrals for assessments of the client. Assist with
development of info for settlement negotiations. Serve as an expert witness in a court
case. Provide info located in the LCP to an official of the court. Consult an economist for
an estimate of the lifetime costs of the LFC.
CLCP qualification 1: # of hours in life care planning - correct answer120 hours of post-
grad or post-specialty degree training in life care planning, areas that can be applied to
life care planning
CLCP qualification 2: training hours spanning a what # of years max period are valid
prior to date of application - correct answer5 year maximum period are valid prior to
date of application
CLCP qualification 3: Candidates must meet minimum academic requirements for their
designated healthcare related profession - correct answerCLCP qualification 3:
Candidates must meet minimum academic requirements for their designated healthcare
related profession
What are the 3 CLCP qualifications - correct answer(1) 120 hours LCP specific training
(2) Training hours rcvd within last 5 years (3) Meet minimum academic requirements for
your designated health care related profession
Designation of Health Care Professional: - correct answer(1) Must be specific to the
care, treatment, and/or rehab of disabled individuals (2) Designation is based on
background, education, training, and practice qualifications
What doesn't qualify as a Qualified Healthcare Professional? - correct
answer*Experience and designated job title. *Completion of training in life care
planning. *Experience developing life care plan. * Qualified as an expert witness in
court. (None of these auto qualify you as a "Qualified Healthcare Professional").
, CLCP EXAM QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Renewal options for CLCP - correct answer(1) 80 clock hours of approved CEU's every
5 years WITH 8 of the 80 being in ETHICS. (2) Re-examination
Ethics Review Board Policy - correct answerAll complaints are heard by the Board
Ethics Jurisdiction - correct answer(1) Anonymous complaints are rejected (2) The
complainant need not be credentialed, but the accused must by credentialed by the
ICHCC.
Who is the client? - correct answerThe CLIENT is the one who is paying you - such as
the attorney, not necessarily the actual patient)
What is the key component in the definition of the word "Disability"? - correct
answer"Impairment"
Disability definition (per SSA): - correct answerThe inability to engage in any substantial
gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental
IMPAIRMENTS which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be
expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months. (definition per SSA)
Disability definition (per Badley, E. 1993) - correct answerAny restriction or lack
(resulting from an IMPAIRMENT) of the ability to perform an activity in the manner or
within the ranges considered normal for a human being.
Disability definition (per The Clinical Journal of Pain) - correct answerAnalogous to
illness, it refers to a stable or persisting physical or psychological dysfunction at the
personal level, which stems from the limitations imposed by the IMPAIRMENT and by
the individual's psychological reaction to it.
IMPAIRMENT (defined per SSA): - correct answerFunctional restrictions
(cognitive/physical) that result from anatomical, physiological, or psychological
ABNORMALITIES which are demonstrable by medically acceptable clinical and
laboratory diagnostic techniques.
IMPAIRMENT (defined per Badley, E in Disability & Rehab text): - correct answerAny
loss or ABNORMALITY of psychological, physiological, or anatomical structure or
function.
IMPAIRMENT (defined by the Clinical Journal of Pain): - correct answerAnalogous with
disease, it refers to a stable and persisting defect in the individual at the organic level
which stems from known or unknown molecular, cellular, physiological, or structured
disorder. (the word abnormality is not in this one, like it is in all the others).
IMPAIRMENT (defined per AMA Guides to the Eval of Perm Impairment: - correct
answerThe loss of a physiologic function or of an anatomic structure. Intellectual
IMPAIRMENT involves diminished or lost cognitive function.
CLCP Categories of expertise or 3 "Domains of Knowledge" - correct answer(1)
Assessing Client's Medical and Independent Living Needs (2) Vocational Assessment
(3) Consultant Services to the Legal System
Competency 1: Assessing Client's Medical Needs consists of: - correct
answerDetermine: cost of needed equipment, medical services. Determine needed
medical supplies. Identifies need for PT services. Determine adaptive equipment needs
& clients home furnishing needs. Specifies cost for needed home furnishings.
Competency 2: Vocational Assessment - correct answerGather work history. Identify the
need for long term voc/educational svs. Assess the client's need for vocation services.
Specify cost for long-term voc/educational svs.
Competency 3: Consultant Services to the Legal System - correct answerDetermine
cost of needed social services. Make referrals for assessments of the client. Assist with
development of info for settlement negotiations. Serve as an expert witness in a court
case. Provide info located in the LCP to an official of the court. Consult an economist for
an estimate of the lifetime costs of the LFC.
CLCP qualification 1: # of hours in life care planning - correct answer120 hours of post-
grad or post-specialty degree training in life care planning, areas that can be applied to
life care planning
CLCP qualification 2: training hours spanning a what # of years max period are valid
prior to date of application - correct answer5 year maximum period are valid prior to
date of application
CLCP qualification 3: Candidates must meet minimum academic requirements for their
designated healthcare related profession - correct answerCLCP qualification 3:
Candidates must meet minimum academic requirements for their designated healthcare
related profession
What are the 3 CLCP qualifications - correct answer(1) 120 hours LCP specific training
(2) Training hours rcvd within last 5 years (3) Meet minimum academic requirements for
your designated health care related profession
Designation of Health Care Professional: - correct answer(1) Must be specific to the
care, treatment, and/or rehab of disabled individuals (2) Designation is based on
background, education, training, and practice qualifications
What doesn't qualify as a Qualified Healthcare Professional? - correct
answer*Experience and designated job title. *Completion of training in life care
planning. *Experience developing life care plan. * Qualified as an expert witness in
court. (None of these auto qualify you as a "Qualified Healthcare Professional").
, CLCP EXAM QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Renewal options for CLCP - correct answer(1) 80 clock hours of approved CEU's every
5 years WITH 8 of the 80 being in ETHICS. (2) Re-examination
Ethics Review Board Policy - correct answerAll complaints are heard by the Board
Ethics Jurisdiction - correct answer(1) Anonymous complaints are rejected (2) The
complainant need not be credentialed, but the accused must by credentialed by the
ICHCC.
Who is the client? - correct answerThe CLIENT is the one who is paying you - such as
the attorney, not necessarily the actual patient)
What is the key component in the definition of the word "Disability"? - correct
answer"Impairment"
Disability definition (per SSA): - correct answerThe inability to engage in any substantial
gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental
IMPAIRMENTS which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be
expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months. (definition per SSA)
Disability definition (per Badley, E. 1993) - correct answerAny restriction or lack
(resulting from an IMPAIRMENT) of the ability to perform an activity in the manner or
within the ranges considered normal for a human being.
Disability definition (per The Clinical Journal of Pain) - correct answerAnalogous to
illness, it refers to a stable or persisting physical or psychological dysfunction at the
personal level, which stems from the limitations imposed by the IMPAIRMENT and by
the individual's psychological reaction to it.
IMPAIRMENT (defined per SSA): - correct answerFunctional restrictions
(cognitive/physical) that result from anatomical, physiological, or psychological
ABNORMALITIES which are demonstrable by medically acceptable clinical and
laboratory diagnostic techniques.
IMPAIRMENT (defined per Badley, E in Disability & Rehab text): - correct answerAny
loss or ABNORMALITY of psychological, physiological, or anatomical structure or
function.
IMPAIRMENT (defined by the Clinical Journal of Pain): - correct answerAnalogous with
disease, it refers to a stable and persisting defect in the individual at the organic level
which stems from known or unknown molecular, cellular, physiological, or structured
disorder. (the word abnormality is not in this one, like it is in all the others).
IMPAIRMENT (defined per AMA Guides to the Eval of Perm Impairment: - correct
answerThe loss of a physiologic function or of an anatomic structure. Intellectual
IMPAIRMENT involves diminished or lost cognitive function.
