Testing & Assessment - Psychology, Behavioral Psychology, Family, Marital & Couples Counseling
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Overview
Widely used by both family therapists and family physicians, the genogram is a graphic way of organizing the mass of information gathered during a family assessment and finding patterns in the family system. This popular text, now updated and expanded, provides a standard method for constructing a genogram, doing a genogram interview, and interpreting the results. Both entertaining and instructive, Genograms is an ideal way to introduce all those involved in family treatment - family therapists, physicians, nurses, social workers, pastoral counselors, and trainees in these fields - to this essential assessment and intervention tool.Information-gathering & interpretation for track- ing family patterns, structures & functioning; clinical uses
Editorials
Booknews
Replete with genograms (now computer-generatable), three therapists explain interviewing for and formatting this tool to map family patterns and apply it in interpreting the family structures of 32 notables from Freud to President Clinton. The bibliography is sectioned into text references, references by topic, and biographical sources on the featured families. Previously titled (c. 1985). Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
April 21, 1999
Publisher
New York : W.W. Norton, 1999.
Pages
234
Format
Textbook
ISBN
9780393702941