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    BACHELOR OF SOCIAL SCIENCE IN SOCIAL WORK

    Social Work Theory and Practice I: Individuals


    and Families

    L8-9
    Basic Concepts of Family Therapy
    Part A Genogram & Eco-map

    Michael Pak
    Saint Francis University

    Genogram

    • Fieldwork requirements
     School
     Agency e.g. IFSC, ICCMW

    • Bowen “Three Steps to Differentiating One's


    Self”
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TetS0OifzUQ

    1
    Genogram Sample

    https://www.hel
    lenictherapy.com
    /genogram

    Genogram Sample

    https://familyther
    apybasics.com/blo
    g/2017/3/17/ho
    w-to-add-
    relational-
    dynamics-to-your-
    genogram

    2
    Genogram
    • Genograms reflect individual/family members’
    point of view and they depict a family at a
    specific point in time, usually the present
    • The person/family members whose perspective
    is represented in a genogram is referred to as
    the Index Person (IP) or Principle client
    • Most members of a family agree on the basics of
    a family tree/structure, but major differences
    may appear when relatives describe the
    relationships among family members

    https://familytherapybasics.com/blog/2017/3/17/how-to-
    add-relational-dynamics-to-your-genogram

    Genogram
    • Assessment and educational functions
     Clarifying family patterns
     Discuss worker’s observation with the family
     Based on the observation to form hypotheses
     Worker join the family to elaborate or revise the
    hypotheses
     Family see their lives and behavior connected to
    family history
     Normalizing (detoxifying) family’s perception on
    itself

    3
    Genogram
     Alternative interpretations of the family’s
    experiences
     Point to new possibilities in the future
     Dysfunctional behavior is often eliminated once the
    family patterns that underlie it are clarified
     E.g. Oldest child – more responsible
     E.g. The only child of an only child mother –
    dominating, never let go of possession
    - The relationship of the grandmother and her
    mother?
    - Was her mother (the grandmother) the only
    -child?

    Exercise - The Case


    Patrick is a 14 year old boy.
    He has an older brother age 18 and
    a younger sister age 12.
    Three children living with their mother.
    His dad and mom divorced 4 years ago because his
    dad was found cheating on his mother.
    Patrick and his brother keep distance relationship
    with father and mother. Sister hated her father but
    has close relationship with her mother.
    Dad re-married 3 years ago when the mistress got
    pregnant. Now they has a girl of their own.
    Patrick’s maternal grandparents deceased long ago.
    The parents of his father was living in HK. Age
    unknow. They have good relationship with Patrick.
    Yet they did not like the “new” wife of their son.

    4
    Exercise
    • Exploration of Genogram (Refer to the genogram keys)
     Draw a genogram for Patrick of at least three generations
    as details as possible with lines of relationship

    • Homework (optional)
     Draw a genogram for your family with at least three
    generations
     State sibling positions of yourself and your parents.
     Provide information as detail as possible with lines of
    relationship
     You may focus more on your/the person’s parents or
    significant parental figures for lack of time.

    Eco-map
    • Dr. Ann Hartman, a social worker and professor,
    developed ecological maps - Eco-maps in 1975
    • An assessment tool that depicts clients’ present
    relationships to various systems in their
    environment
    • Entities/systems within an environment influence
    one another
    • Human experience, therefore, is viewed as the
    result of transactions between systems (ecological
    view)
    • An eco-map is a visual way to capture and organize
    these transactions between the client and the
    client’s total environment

    5
    Eco-map E.g.

    https://nursingbird.com/family-health-assessment-familys-
    ecomap-and-genogram/

    Eco-map E.g.

    https://www.edrawmax.com/article/what-is-ecomap.html

    6
    Eco-map & Genogram E.g.

    (Limb & Hooley, 2017, p.2)

    Try to draw an Eco-map of yourself

    References
    • Limb, G. & Hooley, C. (2017). Eco-map, In A. Wenzel
    (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Abnormal and Clinical
    Psychology, 1, 1282-1283. SAGE.
    https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483365817.n509
    • McGoldrick, M., Carter, B., & Preto, N.G. (2011). The
    expanded family life cycle: Individual, family, and social
    perspectives. Allyn & Bacon.
    • McGoldrick, M., Gerson, R., & Petry, S. S. (2020).
    Genograms : Assessment and treatment (4th ed.). W.W.
    Norton & Company.
    • The Bowen Centre for the study of the family. (2021).
    Eight concepts. https://www.thebowencenter.org/core-
    concepts-diagrams?rq=Bowen%20eight%20concepts
    • 霍玉蓮 (2004) 。婚姻與家庭治療：理論與實務藍圖。突破出版社。

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