CMI Research and Training Institute (C-MIRTI)

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CMI Research and Training Institute (C-MIRTI) focuses on research and training related to Brief Action Planning, a pragmatic, stepped-care application of Motivational Interviewing (MI) for health, wellness, life coaching and the Patient-Centered Medical Home.

The goals and vision of C-MIRTI all concern a not-for-profit clinical and research mission  to improve clinical and wellness outcomes through the application of Brief Action Planning to health systems, clinical care, and life coaching. C-MIRTI's application as a not-for-profit tax-exempt corporation is in process at the present time.

Comprehensive Motivational Interventions (CMI) supports individual self-management and positive behavior change through a highly structured, evidence-based and stepped-care approach to health and wellness coaching. Uniquely coherent, pragmatic and universal, CMI starts with straightforward collaborative planning for change and progressively introduces more nuanced interactions for persisting problems. Organized around the three core questions of Brief Action Planning and supplemented, as needed, by strategic interventions from The Three Function Model of the Medical Interview[1] and Motivational Interviewing (MI),[2] CMI can be adapted for use with all individuals, regardless of health status and readiness for change.

[1] Cole S, Bird J: The Three Function Model of the Medical Interview, Elsevier, 2000.

[2] Miller WR, Rollnick S. Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change. NY.Guilford Press. 2002.

CMI workshops focus on developing mastery of the core evidence-based behavior change and motivational skills shown to be useful to facilitate patient or client adoption of healthier lifestyles to: increase exercise, stop smoking, improve diet, decrease risky drinking, increase adherence to treatment recommendations, improve relationships and/or develop individualized action plans for lifestyle change, wellness, physical or mental health.

              

      

CMI can be efficiently and effectively utilized by practitioners from all the helping professions, from psychology, social work, general medicine and dentistry to psychiatry, nursing, physical therapy, nutrition, life counseling, education, and others. CMI has universal relevance at all levels of care, thus making it more comprehensive than most other approaches while it is also less cumbersome, easier to learn, understand, and use.