While a genogram can provide a fascinating view into the richness of a family's dynamics for those in the know, it may remain a collection of meaningless squares and circles on a page to those who don't know the players in the drama. We hope that evolution of the genogram as a tool will continue as clinicians use genograms to track the complexity of family process. Based on feedback from those who read the book and use genograms in their work as well as other developments in the field, the symbols have been evolved since the first edition appeared in 1985, which reflected a standardization developed by the North American Primary Care Research Group in collaboration with leading family therapists. The genogram is still a tool in progress.
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Norton, to illustrate more fully the growing diversity of family forms and patterns in our society and the applications of genograms in clinical practice.
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As genograms have become widely used in the fields of medicine, psychology, social work, and the other health care, human service, and even legal fields, I wrote, originally with Randy Gerson, Genograms: Assessment and Intervention, a practical guide to genograms, now in its second edition and published by W. More About Genograms by Monica McGoldrick Over the past few decades use of the genogram as a practical tool for mapping family patterns has become more and more widespread among health-care professionals.