Family Psychology : Are A Proper Tool Be Used

Making a genogram can enhance one’s training as a helping professional by laying out points in a person’s life and family that have caused distress and could affect practice in the future. By self realizing the crisis points in one’s family it can help to identify triggers that could lead to countertransference as well as resurfacing of old traumas during counseling or leading a group. Plotting out one’s life is a way to organize a family especially if there are multiple marriages of parents and non-traditional family ties within a standard family tree. By knowing where you come from and the experiences that shape your family you can better

This semester, you will have the opportunity to construct a family genogram for informational purposes. You will develop a genogram, documenting information from both sides of your family (maternal and paternal) for 4 generations starting with yourself. The genogram may be hand drawn or you may use a computer drawn one. (You can download a basic program from www.genopro.com/free or from http://www.progenygenetics.com/students/ ) Your

Additionally, incorporating the emotional and relational components into the genogram and asking for input from each family member could elicit thought-provoking discussion and insight for each individual member of the family, in addition to the

A genogram is a tool utilized in health care to help better understand a person’s family history. Similar to a family tree, a genogram looks at genetic influences, but it is also a “depiction of family structure and dynamics, particularly the in the context of transgenerational patterns” (Chrzastowski, 2011). A genogram typically goes back three generations and can cover topics such as, religion, culture, family relationships, communication styles, health and illness, etc. Genograms help us to understand how a person’s family’s history helps to shape and influence their present situation and any potential future situations. It is a useful tool in providing family-centered care. In psychiatric-mental

Psychodynamicpsychological disorders stem from early childhood experiences and unresolved, unconscious conflicts, usually of a sexual or aggressive nature

The Psychosocial Family Tree assessment requires the input of known, important characteristics of family members. It strives to get a better understanding of an individual’s psychological development by analyzing certain characteristics that the individual’s family members have. The individual fills out the assessment to the best of their abilities, including characteristics of the big five factors, occupation, education, etc. This assessment uses the L-Data approach and the qualitative method. The reliability, validity, and generalizability of the assessment are evaluated to conclude the degree of effectiveness. The results concluded that the Psychosocial Family Tree is low in reliability, moderate in construct validity, and low in generalization. The findings provide an insight to an individual’s personality and awareness to specific patterns of behaviors or characteristics.

Mapping out relationships and interactions between a family system can present a visual aspect to assist with understanding the function as a unit. Creating a genogram gives the clients realizations of why family traditions exist and traits that family members pass from generation to generation.

The propensity for specific disease processes are found when analyzing a client’s family tree history. Typically, completing a genogram with at least three generations can show which disease processes show a pattern in a specific family tree. As figure 1 shows, the current generation has a predisposition for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer. The history complied spans four generations, with three generations on the paternal side, father, grandfather, grandmother, and great-grandfather, contracting heart disease, either suffering from a heart attack, having high blood pressure, or high cholesterol. On the maternal side, there is little information past the second generation. However,

My genogram has three generations and includes the most important or influential people in my family life. The genogram includes my grandparents on both my dad and mom’s side, my parents, their siblings, and spouses, and on the bottom row, my siblings and I. My family has had unique challenges personally and systematically that created a stronger bond as the years went on. Though, today, we are spread out around the country, our familial connections have been strong overall.

In this essay, I will discuss my experience of interviewing a family and constructing a genogram guided by their narrative. For this task, I purposely chose a family that is very different from my family of origin in terms of their cultural heritage. I will reflect on differences and similarities between our families as well as my prejudices and hypothesis that I inevitably constructed before and during the process. To identify this family, I had to approach some colleagues proposing to them to participate in the interview. Fortunately, one of them introduced me to her friend. Francesca had an interest in psychology, and since she was free and not much committed, I did welcome her with a cup of coffee to share more about the

The family loves to engage in activity’s for fun on a regular basics, they enjoyed reading books, watching movies, walking on natural trails especially in the fall months, in summer swimming is noted as exercise for the family. The dad has a gym membership and he attends the gym at least 3 times a week for weight training, he enjoys this every week. The children are involved in extra curriculum activities during the school months, they play soccer, baseball and have karate on Mondays and Wednesdays, and they really enjoy the sports. Mom tries to walk outside in the neighborhood as much as she can, but has been trying to increase this activity. Exercise can really help this family prevent heart disease and obesity, also to help maintain a healthy lifestyle.

A therapist will observe a family’s interaction with one another, any sign of triangles or triangulation, and exploration of nuclear family and intergenerational connections (Gerhart, 2014). During systemic assessment, therapists will focus on individual and familial strengths and making sure that all members of the family recognize and reflect those strengths within themselves and one another. Genograms are use to help translate issues that could be passed through dynamics in familial relations not just in the present, but multigenerational as well. A therapist can adapt a genogram to have as much or as little information needed to benefit their client. This information will usually include, birth and death dates, any type of illness—mental, physical, marriage, divorce and patterns of interaction within family members (hostile, close, emotional cutoff, abuse, fused). Lastly, when a therapist complies the essential components of the case conceptualization they will discuss their ideas with their client to see if they approve with the proposed ideas or opposes. This component is called client perspective—it allows the therapist to verify information they have about their client and see if new meanings about the information come

The objective of doing the genogram is to get to know the patient by gaining understanding of his/her family background. Assessing the family using systemic approach enables health care providers to learn about the ways in which family members interact, what are the family expectations and norms, how effective is the members communication, who makes decisions and how the family deals with life time stressors (Hockenberry & Wilson, 2007). This paper outlines the assessment and analysis of the three generation of Wits’ and Smiths’ families, its relationship, health pattern, habits, tradition and structure. It also provides a nursing teaching plan. The interview was conduced with Alina Wit, a second generation mother of three.

After thorough research on the examination and identification of a pedigree diagram, I was able to carefully analyze that of my family. There were significant

(Cohen, 2017) By following the Family development theory you are able to better understand the running of a family and the different dynamics that occur within it. As for the genogram, it can detect patterns in psychological health and hereditary diseases and can show how families can better their relationship for the