Genograms: Assessment and Intervention

by Monica McGoldrick, Randy Gerson, Sueli Petri, et al.

Book Overview

Using famous families as case studies, this book explains how to draw, interpret and apply the genogram, a graphic way of organizing information gathered during a family assessment. It explains how... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393705099
• ISBN13: 9780393705096
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

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Genograms

I received this book in a timely manner and in great condition. I also received a great price for it. I hope to purchase more books in the future from this vendor.

Great tool for a wide range of clients.

This was an assigned book in my graduate program. I thought it was a nice tool but way too time intensive for the majority of work I do. I have found that it is a wonderful tool for working with people who have an organic impairment or concrete thinking paterns. I have drawn the geno-gram on a white board during the first few sessions with the client. It helps me get a clearer history from the client and gives them a visual, which can be helpful in processing information.

Great Book

If you're not familiar with Genograms you will after you read this book. It tells you how to use this book for your family sessions and by using genograms as an therapeutic technique. It I recommend you buy a genogram software so it can help you do what. It doesn't come with a CD. Which is the down side of this book you will have to pay extra money for that.I used this book for my Marriage and Family System Class.

Understanding relationship patterns in your family

This book came not only highly recommended by my counselor but from my graduate school as well so you know this is a good book for someone getting into the field. I also think this book could be helpful because it is written in layman's terms but it depends on what you are looking to gain out of the book. This book looks at repetitive patterns that happen over the multigenerational transmission process. Patterns that seem to repeat themselves over time and are passed on. Why they happen, what to look for and what questions to ask. Genograms can be extremely revealing even if all you have are only facts. Correlations and assumptions can be made and drawn upon. I'd recommend this book to psychology type students and maybe individuals in the therapy process.