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GENOGRAMS
A genogram is more than a family map.
It is a relationship chart.
Ø It is a map which seeks to highlight intergenerational and familial patterns.
Sumita Dutta Chiara Santin 2017
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Origins & evolution of genograms
n A recording tool in the medical field to record significant family information & identify patterns of mental health illness in previous generations
n An assessment tool n A therapeutic tool with clients n A training tool for personal & professional
development
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SYSTEMIC TIME LINES
n Help identify patterns over time in relation to a theme e.g. education or abuse, similarities and differences, key significant family events and transitions
n How certain values or beliefs or family scripts have been handed down across generations, how they have evolved and changed or stayed the same
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Creative use of genograms
n Use pictures for people and best memories n Use small toys/characters to represent a family
map and identify key people in own family of origin
n Caring circle to identify people and type of relationships e.g closeness/distance
n Use the tree as a metaphor for family composition, relationships etc
n Use drawings Chiara Santin 2017
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Genogram
Keep a focus on n descriptions of
relationships n intergenerational
patterns n stories & ideas
about ….
Some Questions • Who is closest to whom? • Who is/was more/less helpful in your family? • Who is the most/the least affectionate in your family? • How was conflict dealt with in your family? How were birthdays celebrated? • What were the roles and rules in your family about hierarchy and authority?
• Where are your ideas about being a a boy or a girl, a teenager, are coming from?
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LIFE SCRIPTS (J. Bing-Hall, 1995)
n Patterns of behavior and life pathways which are passed on from previous generations to the next e.g. same profession, family values, divorce, abuse, etc
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SCRIPTS THROUGH SYSTEMIC LENSES
n Life scripts n Family scripts n Gender scripts n Age scripts n Cultural scripts n Professional scripts
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Wider socio-cultural contexts
Professional contexts
Family Community
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TYPES OF SCRIPTS
n Replicative script: same script in the next generation e.g. marriage
n Corrective script: seeking an opposite or alternative course of action/pathway e.g. Single
n Improvised script which integrate new ways of being and new beliefs e.g. civil partnership
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The social GRRAACCEES (Burnham, 1993)
Attending to all dimensions of difference ender ace
eligion bility ge
ulture lass
thnicity ducation exuality pirituality Chiara Santin 2017
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Tool 1: Genogram
Identify a particular theme or one of the Graces which is connected to the presenting problem and focus on
n descriptions of relationships n intergenerational patterns n stories & ideas about …being a parent,
gender, class, marriage, divorce, religion, sexuality, culture, education, poverty, abuse
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Tool 2: Time Line
Identify n sequence of key events n What are the main transitions the family is
facing? n Any significant family losses? n Births? n Ilness? n Any particular memories about family
gatherings? Any joyful or sad family event?
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Tool 3: Parenting scripts
Identify similarities & differences about own upbringing & experiences of being parented and parenting children
Some Questions • What are the similarities or differences in
parenting over the generations?
• What kind of parents they would like to be? • What are they trying to do differently from their own parents? (corrective script?)
• What are they doing that it is the same? (replicative script)?
• Is there anything they are trying to change, strengthen, or abandon? (integrative script)?