One type of family intervention is family strengths- oriented therapeutic conversation, or FAM-SOTC. One form of FAM-SOTC took place over the course of four weeks (one hour long session per week). The intervention aimed to examine how schizophrenia has affected the patients and families, helping them to look at their experience in a new light and help them establish a sense of normalcy, help the family develop coping skills, and promote growth in the family.