Genograms: Assessment and InterventionW. W. Norton & Company, 1999 - 234 pages Using famous families as case studies, this book explains how to draw, interpret and apply the genogram, a graphic way of organizing information gathered during a family assessment. It explains how the use of genograms can bring to light a family's history of divorse, suicide, or estrangement, revealing inter-generational patterns that are more than coincidental. Widely used in the training of health and mental health professionals, this work is an introduction to the principles of family systems theory. This edition has been updated and expanded to include developments in genogram use. |
Contents
Mapping Family Systems | 1 |
25 | 2 |
3 McGoldrick family and network | 7 |
Developing a Genogram to Track Family Patterns | 13 |
Biological and adopted | 19 |
Functioning | 25 |
Repetitive patterns | 31 |
Coincidences of Life Events | 35 |
Family Relational Patterns and Triangles | 101 |
Assessing Family Roles Functioning Balance Resilience | 115 |
Using Genograms to Track Families through the Life Cycle | 125 |
Clinical Uses of the Genogram | 149 |
5565 | 165 |
95 | 172 |
Using Genograms for Family Research | 176 |
Appendix | 191 |
Anniversary Reactions | 41 |
Interpreting Family Structure from Genograms | 62 |
Marriage of two younger siblings | 82 |
13 Adams family | 88 |
16 Fernando Colons childhood knowledge of | 94 |
1 | 196 |
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Other editions - View all
Genograms: Assessment and Intervention Monica McGoldrick,Randy Gerson,Sylvia Shellenberger Limited preview - 1999 |
Genograms: Assessment and Intervention Monica McGoldrick,Randy Gerson,Sylvia Shellenberger No preview available - 1999 |
Common terms and phrases
abuse Afdera Franchetti African American alcoholic Amalia Anna assessment become behavior Bernays biological birth order born Brandon brother caretaker child Chronology clinical clinician complex connections context couple cultural cycle transitions daughter death died Diego Rivera divorce Eleanor Eleanor Roosevelt emotional example family events family Genogram family history family life cycle family medicine family members family patterns family structure family system family therapy family's father Fernando Fonda foster Freud family Frida Kahlo functioning genogram information genogram interview Henry Henry Fonda household husband important indicated Jackie Jacob Jacob Freud Jane Jane Fonda John Kennedy lived loss Margaret Sullavan marriage married Martha Mary McGoldrick Mia Farrow Minna mother older oldest parents patient person Peter Peter Fonda physician problems relation remarried families Robeson role Roosevelt sibling constellation sibling position Sigmund Sigmund Freud sister spouses suicide Ted Turner therapist tion traumatic triangles wife Woody Allen York younger youngest