Global CBT Training Guidelines
Access evidence-based CBT training guidelines in multiple languages, along with curated resources from the World Health Organization and expert insights from our global community. Whether you’re a trainer, practitioner, or policymaker, these tools support high-quality, culturally responsive implementation of CBT around the world.
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About Our Guidelines
The World Health Organization (July, 2025) has stated that “the need for action on mental health is indisputable and urgent.” The promotion of effective interventions such as the CBTs, to improve psychological health and alleviate mental health conditions, is one aspect of the need for action. In light of this, the WCCBT has created Training Guidelines to define key aspects of the CBTs and what CBT practitioners do, and to recommend minimum guidelines for the content and competencies that should be included in CBT training of professionals working with adult patients. Training Committee members involved in the development of thse training guidelines included Mehmet Sungur (Chair, Europe), Keith S. Dobson (Canada), Andrea R. Ashbaugh (Canada), J.N. Cohen, Helen Macdonald (UK), Laura Hernandez (South America) and Firdaus Mukhtar (Asia).
The WCCBT Training Guidelines provide a set of definitions and standards that are reviewed and broadly adopted by all WCCBT member CBT organizations and thus provide a common understanding of the knowledge and competencies that characterize a CBT practitioner anywhere in the world.
One goal of the WCCBT is to promote CBTs globally by setting training guidelines, thus improving access to CBTs and other evidence-based psychological interventions around the world.
The documents in this section include the WCCBT training guidelines for professionals working with adult clients that were adopted in 2023, as well as translations into many of the world’s major languages. These are provided to any group that wishes to advance and use these guidelines. Training guidelines are currently underway to train professionals in working with Children and adolescents and to train para-professionals to conduct low intensity CBT.
Should you or your agency work in a language that is not already available, please to contact the WCCBT at training@wccbt.org to propose a translation
