SayPro EXPLAIN THE USE OF SOCIAL TOOLS SUCH AS GENOGRAMS IN WORKING WITH FAMILIES;

What Is a Genogram? A genogram is a picture of a person’s family relationships and history. It goes beyond a traditional family tree allowing the creators to visualize patterns and psychological factors that affect relationships.Genograms were first developed in clinical psychology and family therapy settings by Monica McGoldrick and Randy Gerson and popularized through the publication of a book titled Genograms: Assessment and Intervention in 1985. This new system visualized the client in the context of other relatives including parents, grandparents, spouses, siblings, children, nephews, and nieces.Genograms are now used by various groups of people in a variety of fields such as medicine, psychology, social work, genetic research, education, and youth work to name but a few.Most social work practitioners in personal and family therapy use genograms alongside sociograms for personal records and/or to explain family dynamics to their client.Genograms provide an exceptional mechanism to encourage insight and awareness by focusing on strengths, beliefs, and traditions in families. For example, genograms often provide a useful means of exploring religious and spiritual issues and their impact on clients’ lives. Spiritually focused genograms have been suggested as an effective means for tapping the spiritual resources of families as well as cultural factors in the context of family dynamics. For example, it has been illustrated how spiritual genograms with African American families are used to provide graphic representation of complex expressions of spirituality over three generations for assessment and intervention. A spiritually focused genogram allows therapists to understand clients’ worldviews and the meaning they make of the world from a spiritual perspective. It also provides an excellent tool for exploring dimensions of human experiences and the spiritual dimensions of those experiences intergenerationally.Genograms have been used successfully in assessment, counseling, marriage and family therapy, college teaching, and as mechanisms for increasing awareness in individuals and families concerning family history and family events. For example one area that has been discussed, is the use of genograms in the field of marriage and family therapy as a tool for understanding individual development in the context of family dynamics.White and Tyson-Rawson described the use of genograms to assess gender dynamics in couples and families. Genograms have been found to be useful across the life span and encouraged for use with all ages.Genograms can also increase awareness and provide better insight into the personal family issues of graduate students. For example, genograms have been used as an educational tool by clinical sociologists to introduce and help students understand the sociological basis of family therapy and to deepen awareness of social transmission of families.Most social work practitioners in personal and family therapy use genograms alongside sociograms for personal records and/or to explain family dynamics to their clientGenograms also help people to put a framework together that explains their circumstances. Many young people who are being abused struggle to speak about it, however showing them how to draw a genograms can lead them to drawing the abusive relationship which opens the dialogue.

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