Understanding and visualizing family structure
1) Use the genogram “drawing” as a tool for understanding and visualizing family structure and
history, relying on the basic genogram symbols. (Refer to Blackboard.)
2) Integrate the genogram information into a descriptive essay describing the story of your
family. Essay should reflect aspects of the genogram drawing and be based on a minimum of
three generations.
3) Show your knowledge about basic family terms and concepts relied on for a genogram via a
drawing/diagram and a descriptive essay.
4) Integrate family knowledge and selected terms and learn the various uses of genograms in
family work and interv