Genograms: Assessment and Intervention (Third Edition) (Norton Professional Books)
By:
Randy Gerson Monica McGoldrick Sueli Petry
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Widely used by both family therapists and all health care professionals, the genogram is a graphic way of organizing the mass of information gathered during a family assessment and finding patterns in the family system for more targeted treatment. Now updated and expanded in its third edition, and featuring revised genograms for easier reading, reflecting the growing and widespread use of genograms for clinical intervention, this best-selling text provides a standard method for constructing a genogram, doing a genogram interview, and interpreting the results. Genograms of famous families—Sigmund Freud, Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, the Kennedys, Jane Fonda and Ted Turner, Bill Clinton, Princess Diana, the Roosevelts, and Thomas Jefferson, to name a few—bring the text to life, and help to elucidate the principles of family systems theory and systemic interviewing, which form the basis of genogram work. Once these principles have been explained, the authors go on to present the important clinical applications of genograms in both family therapy and family medicine. These applications include the effective assessment of patients’ risk for emotional problems such as anxiety or depression; structural patterns among families such as divorce and remarriage; relationship patterns such as enmeshment, conflicts, and cut-offs; recent and chronic life stressors such as pregnancy, acute illness, poverty, and racism; and family life cycle transitions and developmental crises, among other uses. By providing a fascinating view into the richness of family dynamics, McGoldrick and her coauthors provide an invaluable guide to clinicians for accurately charting a family’s structure, making it easier to scan for potential problems and take proactive steps to utilize resources when necessary. 32-page color insert.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Excellent condition!!! Excellent seller!!! - Good experience with this seller. Product was exactly as stated and sent exactly as stated. Thanks.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
A tool I can't do without - I have been using genograms for over 13 years and recently bougt this book to enhance my current clinical practice. My initial intake always includes a genogram of the client and his/her family of origin...what a helpful tool! Araceli May
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
A detailed manual for therapist's - One of the many difficulties found in psychotherapy is communicating with relative ease what one professional does with a patient (or client) to another professional. Our notes and comments will always be biased and limited to what we can see, therefore handicapping another person from getting as clear a picture as possible on a persons family.
Genograms have helped greatly in this area and this book, now in it's third edition, has gone a long way towards creating clear and singular criteria for creating a family picture with iconography that everyone in the mental health profession can adopt. It has personally helped me better understand the clinical applications that the genogram has as well as giving me tips and offering insight into family systems therapy.
It is likely that we will all be using some sort of computer software that better helps to illustrate the family and it's interaction, but no computer (at least not yet) will be able to interpret the subtleties involved in family dynamics. That's what this book, and lot's of practice, will help with.
Customer Review: 4 out of 5
This is foundational. Focus on software. - The book gives you a place of evolution in the world of genograms. I studied genograms as a tool in counseling addiction. It is a very good tool for structure, organization and as a hand out.
Genogram software is where we are going. I have tried some software programs and they are where you want to go. If you are reading this, then your interest may be in genograms as a tool. The tool may be best expressed through software.
This book is a grounding for your further explorations in genograms.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Genograms: Assessment and Intervention, Third Edition - This is an excellent book for family and individual therapists. It allows you to get a visual picture of the client's family, both close and extended. This aids other therapists who may also help this client in the future understand what was discovered during the therapy process for the client. A great addition to any therapist's library. It is also a useful tool for those who are interested in recording their family geneology as you don't need to know the person's native language to read the genogram.
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