Genograms: Assessment and Intervention - New 3rd Edition
By Monica McGoldrick et al.
- Paperback:
- 272 pages
- Publisher:
- W. W. Norton & Company; 3rd edition (February, 2008)
- Language:
- English
- ISBN:
- 0393705099
- Dimensions:
- 9.2 x 7 x 0.9 inches
- Weight:
- 1.6 pounds
- Price:
- $21.00
Read about the New 3rd Edition
Replete with genograms (now computer-generatable), three therapists explain interviewing for and formatting this tool to map family patterns and apply it in interpreting the family structures of 32 notables from Freud to President Clinton. The bibliography is sectioned into text references, references by topic, and biographical sources on the featured families.
An updated, expanded edition of Norton's best-selling professional book on genograms. Using famous families as case studies, this book explains how to draw, interpret, and apply the genogram, a graphic way of organizing the information gathered during a family assessment. Widely used in training of health and mental health professionals, Genograms is an engaging introduction to the principles of family systems theory. The new edition highlights new developments in genogram use.
If you're a Marriage and Family Therapist, or a counselor or psychologist this book will help you. It teaches you how to map out families and family patterns. It helps you to understand the family connection to your client's problems. Your client will also gain a better understanding of themselves and their family during the process of mapping. This book is a great tool.This classic text on genograms, one of the core tool of family therapists, and other healthcare professionals has been completely revised for its second editionSelena D. Forrester — Amazon.com