Genogram as a Graphic Technique of Family Diagnosis
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The author presents the principles behind creating a genogram, called also a “family map”, which serves the purpose of collecting data about a family with the use of defined graphic symbols. Consequently, graphic signs are presented, which illustrate how individual members of a family are biologically and legally linked with one another, spanning three generations. Apart from this, the main areas of interpreting a genogram, that is the structure of a family, its composition, the place of a family in the life cycle, critical events in the life of a family, repeating family patterns by generations, family triangles, as well as the state of equilibrium regarding the roles played by individual members in families and their functioning are discussed.
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