Accreditation Criteria:

1. All therapists will have an approved basic professional qualification in an appropriate profession (psychology, psychiatry or medicine). They will have two years of experience since qualification in their core profession.

2. Therapists being considered for accreditation will have sufficient experience in working in a therapeutic role with clients. 

3. Therapists must be able to demonstrate personal qualities that make them suitable for the practice of behavioural and cognitive therapy. 

4. Therapists will be using behavioural and cognitive therapy in a systematic way as their main, or one of their main therapeutic models. 

5. Therapists have to meet the Minimum Training Standards. 

6. Therapists have to maintain an agreed level of continuing professional development in behavioural and cognitive therapy. 

7. Therapists have to receive regular clinical supervision. 

8. Therapists have to adhere to the RABCT ”Code of Good Practice of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapy”. 

9. Therapists have to be members of RABCT.