Family Work Flashcards
Family Work
•Establish a personal relationship with ? and an alliance with the family as?
individual members/ a group
Family Work:
•Clarify ? and explore ? about the helping process, including potential?
expectations
reservations
dynamics of culture
Family Work
•Elicit the family’s perception of?
the problem
Family Work:
•Identify ? of family members
wants and needs
Family Work:
•Define the presenting issue as a ?
family problem/challenge
Genograms:
An assessment of ? family functioning, including mapping family ?, family ? and showing.
internal
structure
history
relationships
Genograms:
A schematic diagram of the family ?, using squares to represent ?, circles to indicate ?, horizontal lines for ?, and vertical lines to?.
system men women marriages children
Setting Priorities for Genograms:
- The basic genogram patterns can help the clinician set priorities:
a. ? symptoms, relationship or functioning patterns across the family and over the generations.
Repetitive (Repeated triangles, coalitions, cut-offs, patterns of conflict, over and under-functioning are central to genogram interpretation.)
Setting priorities for Genograms:
b. ? of dates:
Coincidences( e.g., the death of one family member or anniversary of this death occurring at the same time as the symptom onset in another; the age at symptom onset coinciding with the age of problem development in another family member)
Setting Priorities for Genograms:
2. The impact of change and untimely life cycle transitions: particularly changes in functioning and relationships that correspond with critical ? and untimely ? that occur “off-schedule”
family life events
life cycle transitions (e.g, births, marriages or deaths)
Setting priorities for Genograms:
3. Awareness of possible patterns makes clients more sensitive to?
what is missing