Training 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 issue, the WCCBT has adopted Training Guidelines to both define key aspects of the CBTs and what CBT practitioners do, and to also recommend minimum guidelines for the content and competencies that should be included in CBT training.

The WCCBT Training Guidelines provide a set of definitions and standards that are broadly adopted by 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 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.  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.