Add to ORKGThe considerable number of essential skills identified in the litera-ture creates a challenge for family therapist instructors and supervi-sors who must develop a coherent curriculum for clinical training and supervision. This study used a modified Delphi method to obtain a consensus from experienced structural family therapists concern-ing the most essential skills needed by novice structural family ther-apists. The therapists concluded that relational skills are of primary importance to establish a therapeutic relationship that would facili-tate the structural interventions. A critical component of the rela-tional factor was the ability of the novice therapist to provide a vision of study pro training tioner’s p therapis