This is based on a Mental health Nursing assignment
Used Microsoft word
The family genogram is a useful tool for the assessment of individuals, couples, and families. It can yield significant data and lead to important, new patient understandings and insights as multigenerational patterns take shape and assume new meaning. The genogram is a graphic sketch of the patient and several generations of his or her family.
The family genogram has several purposes:
- Provides the identified patient, family, and therapist with a graphic structure to explore past and present difficulties.
- Provides the therapist with background information to put current patient difficulties in context.
- Uses the assessment process as an opportunity for patient intervention, for example, as the patient begins to see patterns emerge.
Info: You can create information items for the genogram as long as the rubric is followed. My current occupation is nursing.
Prepare a three- or four-generation genogram that maps a family that includes informational items such as occupational and social roles, major life events, significant illnesses, and important dates, for example, births, deaths, marriages, and separations. The quality and longevity of significant relationships are noted. The graphic presentation of family events and relationships facilitates the linkage of current issues, concerns, or circumstances to the multigenerational family’s structure and evolving patterns of relationship. To provide a more specific example, a genogram may reveal a multigenerational pattern of affective disorder, substance abuse, and early parent loss.
Use the circle, square, lines and other drawing symbols included in Microsoft Word’s drawing tool to create your genogram. If you are unfamiliar with using these features in Word, refer to the online Help and How-Tos for Shapes and Drawing for WordLinks to an external site..
Here is a simple example of See Figure 3.1; however, follow your rubric to get all the points and instructions.
Please review the website below for instructions on how to create a genogram.
https://www.smartdraw.com/genogram/Links to an external site.
Start with yourself or a friend as the index person (the person from whose perspective the genogram is being drawn) and then show the rest of the generations in the family. Include a brief discussion of your interpretation of the genogram. Do not include information that will allow the index person or their family to be identified. Use fictitious names if necessary.
The file you turn in should be named using the following naming convention: genogram_name.doc where name is your first name followed by your last name. For example, if you are John Smith, your filename should be genogram_johnsmith.doc. Utilize the Canvas Assignment functionality as outlined below to submit your genogram: