“With clarity, depth and heart, this book shows us how the genogram can be used to engage clients, master resistance, restore broken connections, and help our clients (and ourselves) resolve issues and move forward. Excerpts of transcripts of several of these video clips are offered in the text. This book is a companion also for the video Assessment and Engagement in Family Therapy (also available at an illustration of engaging a Latino immigrant family over the first several clinical sessions. In fact, the genogram becomes pivotal in understanding and mapping out the moves to help the family resolve their issues and move on. It draws also on the multi-session demonstration of working with a remarried family Legacies of Unresolved Loss: A Family Systems Approach, another example of using a genogram in clinical work with a family that has come to therapy not seeking to understand their genogram but rather to resolve the issues of their teenage daughter. This book is also a companion to several videotapes, including Harnessing the Power of Genograms (available at which demonstrates a first session with a client who comes to therapy not seeing his genogram as relevant to his presenting problem of distancing from his wife. Here we explore the use of genograms for engaging and working with clients in therapy. The Genogram Casebook assumes the reader is already familiar with the graphics of genograms and the various patterns they show, through Genograms: Assessment and Intervention, and with the possibilities of reconnecting with your family through the exploration of your own genogram, as laid out in The Genogram Journey: Reconnecting with your Family. The specific tool of the creative genogram enabled us not only to provide a clear directive tool for family social workers but also to demonstrate the ways that social art corresponds to and can enhance the aims of family social workers in more detail.This book is a companion to Genograms and The Genogram Journey, but it focuses specifically on clinical issues of everyday practice: engagement, mastering resistance, de-triangling, dealing with conflicts, and helping clients repair cutoffs. A theoretical understanding of social versus psychological art is outlined. Ways to overcome these challenges and to utilize the benefits were discussed. Challenges were the unfamiliarity of art language and fear of being “diagnosed” through art. The findings point to the usefulness of including creative genograms in family social work contexts to intensify information, engagement, and stimulation and to re-perceive calcified problems through new visual terms. This participatory research gathers the self-defined, phenomenological experience of family social workers who experienced creative genograms firstly on themselves and then administered it with their clients: Examples are analyzed within the text. Creative genograms enable families to phenomenologically self-define recurring themes and issues, thus combining both historical, but also, experiential data on the same page. Genograms are widely used in family therapy as a way of visually mapping out systems and recurring family patterns. Research on Social Work Practice, Ahead of Print.
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