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3. Explain the genogram layout. Use the template to show and explain how you
will be collecting your clinical information.
4. Collect data by drawing the relationships on paper in front of your index
person. Explain the genogram (relationship to significant others in family
network) to your index person.
If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go?
In one word, what is the most important thing to you and why?
What is your favorite thing to eat? When did you first eat it?
Who was the most influential person/people in your life and what did
you learn from them?
1. If I were to walk into the place where you live, what would I see hanging on
the walls, placed on the tables, or shelves?
2. If I were to look at the reading material, tapes, CDs, DVDs, and videos
where you live, what would I see?
3. If I were to observe you and the people you care about enjoying an activity
together, what would I see?
4. What do you value more than anything else in life and why?
5. What changes have there been in the family in the last year?
6. How has the family coped with these changes?
7. Who leads your family now - who asserts their needs and opinions most
forcefully and makes the major family decisions?
8. "On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your family's recent ability to
solve your major problems?"
9. Has anyone in your family or ancestry had (a) significant trouble with the
law, (b) any of the four addictions, or (c) hospitalizations for psychological
problems? (Four types of addiction are substances, including sugar, fat, and
carbohydrates (comfort foods); relationships, (co-dependence), excitement
(rage, risk, sexual arousal and relief), and activities (gambling, shopping,
overwork, cleaning, exercising, pornography, Web-surfing,).
Have subject rate Family members on a chart from 1-10, with 10 being close and 1
being distant.
6. The 2nd interview family process questions: You can use these in putting
together the genogram as a "guide" in talking to family members.
1. When there was a birth or adoption, how did members of the family react?
2. When someone died or left the family in another way, how did members of the
family react?
3. What types of jobs do family members choose? Are there any patterns in this?
4. How do/did family members get along? Did/Do some family members get along
better than others?
5. Is anyone in the family particularly helpful or unhelpful? (i.e., Who did/do people
turn to for help? Who do/did they know not even bother asking?)
6. Are/were there any special talents that anyone has/had in the family?
7. Is/was anyone expected to be especially good or bad at anything?
8. How did/do family members spend their leisure time? Together? Apart?
9. Did/do family members behave differently outside the family? How?
10. What is/was the effect of sibling position (e.g., oldest, youngest, middle)?
11. What were/are sibling relationships like?
12. When a crisis hit, how did family members react? How did it help or hurt the
family?
13. When there was a special success or triumph in the family, how did family
members react?
14. Are/were family members active in religious organizations? What is/was the
religious climate of the home?
15. Are/were family members active in community organizations?
16. Were/are there any family themes you can identify (e.g., "We are a strong family."
"Members of this family are honest, even if it hurts.")?
17. What coincidences do you see in the family (e.g., most of the children in this
family are born near a Friday the 13th and if they are born on Friday the 13th,
they are always boys--an actual coincidence from a student's genogram).
18. How were family members affected by major historical events (e.g.,The War on
Iraq, Gulf War, war in Vietnam, the civil rights movement of the 50's and 60's)?
19. Where do you see alliances in the family? What contributed to these alliances?
20. What relationships do you see as conflictual? Why do you think they were this
way?
21. What relationships do you see as cooperative? Why do you think they were this
way?
22. How were family members characterized (e.g., favorite child, leader, follower,
peacemaker, troublemaker, etc.)
23. Was there any particular moment in the life of a family member when he/she had
a dramatic change in how he/she viewed the family?
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