A technique widely used in cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, which is a brief intervention, usually at the beginning of psychotherapy, to increase the likelihood that people with health problems will seek help and be much more successful in changing their behavior. The main task of the CMI is to help the patient find his own reasons for the changes. They may contain a number of strategies, for example, 5A and 5R. The basic principles of the use of CMI: demonstration of a benevolent-neutral position, and not moralizing or pressure; the use of open-ended questions, “reflection” and “generalization” techniques. Contraindications to the use of the technique: a patient with motor anxiety, with extremely aggressive behavior, with confusion, in a state of acute intoxication, in an acute psychotic state, patients with severe cognitive impairment.