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Tables of Contents for Genograms
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xiii
Acknowledgments
xv
Genograms: Mapping Family Systems
1
12
A Family Systems Perspective
6
5
A Caveat
11
2
Developing a Genogram to Track Family Patterns
13
49
Mapping the Family Structure
14
6
Constructing the Genogram
20
3
Tracking Family Patterns on the Genogram
23
30
Demographic Information: Getting the ``Facts''
23
3
Patterns of Functioning
26
3
Family Relationships and Roles
29
4
Critical Life Events
33
1
Family Chronologies
33
2
Coincidences of Life Events
35
3
Critical Life Changes, Transitions, and Traumas
38
3
Anniversary Reactions
41
2
Locating the Family in Historical Time: Social, Economic, and Political Events
43
2
Complex Genograms
45
3
Multiple Marriages and Intermarriages: Richly Cross-Joined Families
48
1
Children Raised in Multiple Households
48
1
Missing Infomation
49
3
Discrepancies
52
1
The Genogram Interview
53
9
The Family Information Net
53
1
The Presenting Problem and the Immediate Household
53
1
The Current Situation
54
1
The Wider Family Context
54
1
Dealing with a Family's Resistance to Doing a Genogram
54
1
Ethnic and Cultural History
55
1
The Informal Kinship Network
56
1
Tracking Family Process
57
1
Difficult Questions about Individual Functioning
57
3
Setting Priorities for Organizing Genogram Information
60
2
Interpreting Family Structure from Genograms
62
39
Household Composition
62
4
Traditional Nuclear Family Household
63
1
Single-Parent Families
63
1
Remarried Families
64
1
Extended Family Networks
65
1
Sibling Constellation
66
23
Birth Order
68
1
Twins
68
1
Different Roles for Brothers and Sisters
69
3
Oldest Sons and Daughters
72
2
The Youngest Child
74
2
Middle Children
76
3
Only Children
79
1
Sibling Position and Marriage
80
4
Sibling Position and Parenting
84
1
Sibling Relationships in Adult Life
85
1
Other Factors Influencing Sibling Constellation
85
4
Unusual Family Configurations
89
4
Children Growing Up in Multiple Families: Foster Care, Adoption and Orphanage Experiences
93
6
Clinical Illustration
99
2
Family Relational Patterns and Triangles
101
14
Triangles
102
11
Parent-child Triangles
103
1
Common Couple Triangles
104
7
Triangles in Families with Foster or Adopted Children
111
1
Multigenerational Triangles
112
1
Relationships Outside the Family
113
2
Assessing Family Roles, Functioning, Balance, Resilience, and Resources
115
10
The Family Structure
115
1
Roles
116
1
Level and Style of Functioning
117
3
Tracking Resilience
120
3
Family Resources
123
2
Using Genograms to Track Families through the Life Cycle
125
24
The Life Cycle of Freud's Family
126
23
Courtship and Marriage of Freud's Parents: The Joining of Families
126
3
The Transition to Parenthood and Family with Young Children
129
5
Family with Adolescents
134
1
Family at Midlife: Launching Children and Moving On
135
1
Marriage, the Next Generation
135
5
Parenthood, the Next Generation
140
5
Family in Later Life
145
4
Clinical Uses of the Genogram
149
27
The Genogram in Family Therapy
149
20
Engaging the Family
149
1
Dealing with Resistance in the Genogram Interview
150
7
Clarifying Family Patterns
157
1
Reframing and Detoxifying Family Issues
157
1
Using the Genogram to Design Interventions
158
3
Using Rituals Developed from the Genogram to Transform Loss
161
3
Making Genograms Come Alive in Therapy
164
5
Genogram Applications in Family Practice
169
7
Systemic Medical Recordkeeping
169
2
Rapport-building
171
1
Medical Management and Preventive Medicine
171
5
Using Genograms for Family Research
176
15
Research on the Genogram as a Clinical Tool
176
8
Research Complexities
177
3
Research on Clinical Usefulness
180
3
Reliability Studies
183
1
Research on Families and Family Process
184
2
Computer-generated Genograms
186
5
Appendix
191
36
Bibliography
References
199
6
Bibliography by Topic
205
15
Biographical References
220
7
Index
227