Motivational interventions may have greater sustained impact if they trained imagery-based self-management.

What it found

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Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Mental imagery of suicide and non-suicidal self-injury: A meta-analysis and systematic review.Clinical psychology review · 2023
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2. Early Evaluation of IMAGINATOR 2.0 Intervention Targeting Self-Harm in Young People: Single-Arm Feasibility Trial.JMIR formative research · 2026
   Trial
3. Imaginator: A Proof-of-Concept Feasibility Trial of a Brief Imagery-Based Psychological Intervention for Young People Who Self-Harm.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2020
   Trial
4. Functional imagery training versus motivational interviewing for weight loss: a randomised controlled trial of brief individual interventions for overweight and obesity.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2019
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5. Mental imagery as a "motivational amplifier" to promote activities.Behaviour research and therapy · 2019
   Trial
6. Effects of training podiatrists to use imagery-based motivational interviewing when treating people with diabetes-related foot disease: a mixed-methods pilot study.Journal of foot and ankle research · 2021
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7. Innovations in digital interventions for psychological trauma: harnessing advances in cognitive science.mHealth · 2018
   Review
8. Balance Right in Multiple Sclerosis (BRiMS): a guided self-management programme to reduce falls and improve quality of life, balance and mobility in people with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis: a protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2018
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9. Imagining Change: An Integrative Approach toward Explaining the Motivational Role of Mental Imagery in Pro-environmental Behavior.Frontiers in psychology · 2016
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10. The OnTrack Diabetes Web-Based Program for Type 2 Diabetes and Dysphoria Self-Management: A Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol.JMIR research protocols · 2015
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11. Development of the OnTrack Diabetes Program.JMIR research protocols · 2015
    Article
12. An imagery-based road map to tackle maladaptive motivation in clinical disorders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2015
    Review

Corrections and comments

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  Big issues.2014
• Comment on
  Should brief interventions in primary care address alcohol problems more strongly?2014

Authors and funding

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Abstract

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