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APPROVED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE WORLD ASSOCIATION FOR POSITIVE AND TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHOTHERAPY (WAPP), AS OF JULY 2022

This handbook for trainings in Positive Psychotherapy includes all important information for trainers, training centers, and individual organizers of official WAPP trainings of Positive Psychotherapy. It has been prepared over a long period, and the WAPP Board is very grateful to all colleagues, Committees, and the Head Office, who contributed to it.
In this handbook you find structure of trainings and their contents (Training Standards and course curricula for Basic and Master Courses of Positive Psychotherapy), as well as administrative and organizational issues concerning the trainings, such as admission criteria for course participants or course documentation.
This document provides you all information on PPT trainings in one booklet. It will be a useful guideline and manual to look up the details and aspects to consider when you offer trainings in PPT. Moreover, these are the essential aspects that need to be considered to guarantee the quality of the trainings and the certification of course participants.
Trainers and organizers are free to set up and conduct their trainings according to their own preferences or national peculiarities, as long as important criteria referring to the admission and certification of course participants are guaranteed.
It is of your own interest to adhere to the advice given in this handbook to avoid misunderstandings and complaints from your course participants whose expectations might not be fulfilled if they were given wrong information.

The Board of Directors of WAPP
July 2022