The International Declaration on Core Competences in Professional Psychology was adopted by the IAAP and IUPsyS as follows:

• International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP): 15. June 2016
• International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS): 25. July 2016

The Declaration is a set of core competences endorsed in 2016 by the major international associations in psychology and it can be used to describe and identify the essential elements of professional psychology practice around the world. There is growing evidence of a broad, global interest in the project, based on requests for more information and reports that the Declaration has been translated into several languages. It has already been used in efforts towards developing regulations and/or benchmarking criteria in several national associations.

The Declaration (2016)

You can download the IPCP Declaration here (in its original, English form):

The 2026 Supplement to the Declaration

Below you can download 3 documents: (a) The 2026 Supplement, (b) an integrated version of original Declaration and Supplement and (c) the development and consultation report for the Supplement.

Translations

Here are the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the development of a translation of the Declaration: SOP for translation of IPCP Declaration (English).

You can also download translations of the IPCP Declaration here: