Last updated: 29 October 2025
Functional Imagery Training (FIT)

Translating cognitive theory into effective interventions to strengthen and train motivation for behaviour change
Last updated: 14 October 2025
Professor Jackie Andrade

Plymouth Pioneers: Inspiring behaviour change with mental imagery
Last updated: 8 July 2025
Functional imagery training to reduce alcohol-related harm

Functional imagery training to reduce alcohol-related harm in patients with alcohol-related liver disease: a pilot randomised trial
Last updated: 6 October 2023
Lose weight, stop smoking, exercise more: the psychology behind positive behavioural change

Professor Jackie Andrade
Published: 4 August 2020
Study to explore whether new therapy can help address problem drinking

Functional Imagery Training will be trialled to see if it can change the behaviour of people admitted to hospital with alcohol-related liver disease
Published: 24 September 2018
Weight loss can be boosted fivefold thanks to novel mental imagery technique, research shows

Overweight people lost an average of five times more weight using Functional Imagery Training (FIT)