Brief Description
A long-awaited workbook companion to Monica McGoldrick s highly successful textbook Genograms."
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Widely utilized by family therapists and health care professionals, the genogram is a graphic way of organizing the mass of information gathered during a family assessment and finding patterns in the family system for more targeted treatment. For a client with cutoff relationships or a history of trauma, it can be hard to talk to a therapist about past and present relationships. Genograms are a non-intrusive and non-confrontational way to learn about a client's history and chart crucial, complex information for effective assessment and therapy The Genogram Casebook deploys richly detailed case examples to address resistance to genograms, overcoming dysfunctional relationship patterns, working with couples, navigating issues of divorce and remarriage, using genograms in family sessions with children, repairing conflict and cutoff with family members, looking at the therapist's own family, and much more. It's a vibrantly practical, decisively essential guide to the use of genograms in mental health practice.
About the Author
Monica McGoldrick, M.A., M.S.W., Ph.D., is co-founder and director of the Multicultural Family Institute in Highland Park, New Jersey, and adjunct faculty at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Her books include Ethnicity and Family Therapy, Third Edition, Genograms: Assessment and Intervention, Second Edition, The Expanded Family Life Cycle, Third Edition and The Genogram Journey.
Review Quotes
1. The Genogram Casebookis like having a personal conversation with Monica McGoldrick. She makes Bowen theory come alive as she shows how to help clients move beyond their immediate situations to connect with a broader sociohistorical sense of self. The goal? To be able to create the kind of connections our clients want in life. This book is so very helpful full of wisdom and step-by-step advice for how to build relationships founded on self-responsibility and openness to learn about another.--Carmen Knudson-Martin, PhD, Professor and Director, Marriage, Couple, & Family Therapy Program, Lewis & Clark College"
2. The Genogram Casebookis like having a personal conversation with Monica McGoldrick. She makes Bowen theory come alive as she shows how to help clients move beyond their immediate situations to connect with a broader sociohistorical sense of self. The goal? To be able to create the kind of connections our clients want in life. This book is so very helpful full of wisdom and step-by-step advice for how to build relationships founded on self-responsibility and openness to learn about another. --Carmen Knudson-Martin, PhD, Professor and Director, Marriage, Couple, & Family Therapy Program, Lewis & Clark College"
