Multi-Modality Treatment (MMT):
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MMT: Multi-Modality Treatment:
Multi-Modality Treatment (MMT) processes have been utilized to accelerate the clinical engagement of treatment-resistant patients by integrating a holistic view of learning with an eco-systemic awareness of the familial and educational factors that impinge upon or contribute to treatment outcomes. ​
​MMT EMPHASIZES:
​Learning
  • Executive function-based learning model that is sensitive to the unique learning needs of individual/groups/systems
  • Developmentally sensitive in its understanding of learning throughout the lifespan
Holism/Systems-Awareness
  • It is holistic in seeing the individual as part of a larger system
  • It understands the balance between thinking and being
  • It appreciates the dialectical interaction between all participants and systems (individuals, families, groups, teams, agencies, and communities)
  • ​It accepts that the suffering within the world is always balanced out by our true ability to experience deep and pervasive joy
Metacognition
  • Builds the metacognitive awareness of each participant individually and as a member of various collective groups
  • Helps groups come together with a sense of shared relational goals and a collective sense of purpose
Empirical Change
  • Critical thinking skills are used to promote awareness
  • Evidence-based treatment/learning models are used to promote behavioral change. 
  • DBT, CBT, ACT, MI, and Change Theory have all been integrated into holistic MMT Programs ​
Language Development
  • Change is evaluated though the development of new, more adaptive oral and written language outputs
  • Language is understood by, emotionally experienced by, and openly articulated by all participants over the course of a given treatment in a meaningful manner
  • Movement is valued as are body-based therapy models that promote language development.
  • Clinicians are always trying to help patients develop clearer ways of communicating their needs, insights, and knowledge to the people in their lives as they adapt in increasingly healthier ways.
Goal-Development
  • MMT’s perspective of learning/pedagogy begins with one participant (frequently the MMT Clinician) taking an active, central role within a given dyad, group, or team. In this role, the MMT Clinician advocates for the identification of common learning goals and shared outcomes.
  •  MMT ends with all the individuals and groups agreeing that the collaborative goals were achieved, and that goal achievement is evidenced by all participants choosing to engage in healthier, adaptive ways of coping.
Urgency
  • MMT maintains a sense of urgency in accomplishing its primary goal of healthier expression by employing state-of-the-art technology and evidence-based interventions to promote the process of change. 
  • MMT simultaneously appreciates a given participant’s and group’s natural rate of change.
Diversity AwareNess:
  • MMT Clinicians are always respectful, fair-minded, diversity-aware, culturally sensitive, and mindful of the individuals and groups with whom and for whom they collaborate.  
  • MMT Clinicians also accept the reality that different groups of people may strive to achieve goals that conflict with the goals of other groups, revealing the possibility for struggle, alienation, and physical/emotional pain. ​​
“MMT Clinicians and participants help bridge the traditions of Western thinking and Eastern mindfulness through the experience of the spoken word that is shared within a given moment of purposeful connection.” 

​​MMT's PHILOSOPHY:
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Multi-Modality Therapy balances Western thinking that is epitomized by the French Philosopher,  René Descartes phrase, “I think, therefore I am,” with Eastern philosophical teachings on mindfulness/being in the moment.

​The merging of thinking and being allows patients to develop an understanding of how their cognitive strengths/challenges can seek balance with their need to find connection within the moment, themselves, and the people around them.  Both cognition and being have value and serve as a foundation for fruitful intellectual and interpersonal growth.  

MMT also accepts that within the world much suffering exists but over time it is balanced out by the experience of deep and pervasive joy.

MMT also assumes that one must balance moments of being together with others and moments of being by oneself. Being with others can prompt feelings of interpersonal intimacy or interpersonal alienation. Whereas, being by oneself can also be experienced as promoting both solitude/connection with oneself or an overriding feeling of being disconnected from others.