CMI

Why Does CMI Work?

CMI activates patients or clients towards healthier lifestyles and personal goals.
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Who Is CMI For?

CMI is designed for all health care providers and life coaches…
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Learn the 8 basic skills of Brief Action Planning…
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Brief Action Planning

Healthy behavior change across all levels of readiness.
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What Is CMI?

An evidence-based, stepped-care application of Motivational Interviewing. When used by health care providers or life coaches, the tools and techniques of CMI transform lives by developing self- management and self-motivation skills to improve health and quality of life.

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Who Is CMI For?

CMI is designed for health care providers, life coaches, healthcare systems, the patient centered medical home, and any organization focusing on systematic change. The approach is relatively easy to teach and learn. CMI offers an approach that is systematic, powerful, and effective.

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Learning CMI

The CMI approach includes a core tool, Brief Action Planning (B.A.P.), 8 core skills, and thirteen advanced skills. B.A.P. can be learned through automated online courses or workshop learning. Mastery of competencies can be confirmed through telephonic certification.

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The Medical Interview: The Three-Function Approach

Dr. Cole’s book, The Medical Interview: The Three Function Approach (Elsevier, 2000), under contract for its third edition, is the required interviewing textbook for approximately 22 US medical schools and has been translated into Japanese. The concepts and techniques of the “Three Function Model of the Medical Interview” help guide the structure and skills of Comprehensive Motivational Interventions.

A member of MINT (Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers), Dr. Cole has presented his communication work on the scientific programs of the Society of General Internal Medicine, the American Psychiatric Association, the MINT Forum, the American Psychosomatic Society, the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, the International Conference on Motivational Interviewing and many others. He provides workshops and lectures nationally and internationally, including invitations to Switzerland, Holland, China, Chile, Israel and Sweden.