Techniques and Skills:

1. This approach stresses the involvement of the therapist with the family.

2. Use family mapping and chronologies.

3. Create new meaning and liberate family members

4. Family sculpting - creating a still picture of the family that symbolizes relationships by having family members physically position each other by roles they play within the family. This technique helps to cut through intellectualized defenses and allows for the more nonverbal members to express themselves.

5. Encourage open communication, where individuals are allowed to honestly report their opinions and perceptions.

6. Help family members construct a mind, soul, body triad as a current basis of self-identity.

7. Use of the Intergenerational Model of Family reconstruction - a psycho-dramatic reenactment of a significant event used to help identify the point from which the dysfunctional patterns stem.