Please use Genogram and names from attachment .
Paper Outline:
Identification of: Family Patterns, Issues and Traits:
Identification of psychosocial patterns, traits, and dynamics is the main focus of this section. What are the strongest or most prevalent traits and patterns you see?
DESCRIBE the specific trends and issues depicted in the genogram, such as education attainment, marriage patterns, parent-child relationships, gender issues, ethnicity, religion, traumas, abuse of any sort (e.g., substance abuse or family violence), mental health issues, health issues/illnesses, economic status, and any other patterns that emerge (in the next section you will have the opportunity to analyze and explore the impact of the patterns identified here).
Are there patterns related to culture, race, religion, ethnicity, economic status, or education that have impacted your family over time? Consider strengths as well as challenges.
Highlight if privilege, discrimination, and/or structural inequities have impacted the family.
Theoretical Analysis of: Family Patterns, Issues and Traits:
Utilize concepts from the course and/or other family therapy theories to conduct an analysis explaining the family’s patterns identified in the prior section, including relationship dynamics, ways of relating, and intensities (e.g., boundaries, triangles, enmeshment, hierarchy, differentiation, culture and many more). Use theory/research to explain the trends and dynamics identified in the prior section. Cite 2- 3 references (within the last 15 years) that support your analysis.
If present, discuss how forms of racism, stigma, prejudice, discrimination, structural inequities, and oppression intersect and contribute to the family patterns and functioning. If present, discuss how privilege has contributed to the family patterns and functioning.
Note how strengths, vulnerabilities, and traumas have been transmitted intergenerationally. Analyze how these patterns are likely to affect the current generation and following ones into the future. How might they be perpetuated? How might they be broken? Use of a family therapy theory can be helpful to explain the family dynamics.
Work with Partner
Describe the process of working with your partner in identifying trends. Describe your experience, key insights, and your own level of comfort in each role (interviewer/interviewee). Comment on the experience of feeling vulnerable and how it might be helpful in your work as a social worker.
Use of Genograms
Consider how this may be of use as a tool in your practice (or not). How does it fit with the population with whom you hope to work?
Genogram Assignment Grading Rubric (35 points):
5 points Genogram Construction:
Structure lines, relationship lines, clarity, level of relevant detail, creativity with the key.
10 points Identification of Family Patterns:
Ability to identify and depict family patterns and traits in the diagram.
10 points Written Analysis of Family Patterns/Generational Trends:
Relevant family therapy theories are used to analyze generational patterns and traits and their impact on the family, including how they may influence current and future generations (and self).
5 points Written Analysis of Experience:
Written analysis of your experience of being interviewed vs. interviewing for the genogram in class; Discussion of use in one’s practice.
5 points Syntax:
Clarity of writing, grammar and following the outline for critical analysis.
