2.  In pairs, answer the following questions and turn in one written response with both names on paper. Use Goldenberg, Yarhouse, and Genogram books)  1. After reading Box 1.6 Case study, p. 18 (Goldenberg), create a genogram of family and identify where presenting problem is taking place  2. What skills and concepts mentioned in Ch. 1 were used to facilitate change in this family?  3. If this family requested biblically informed counseling, what concepts from Ch. 1 (Yarhouse) would be useful to bring into the session?

3.  The standardized genogram format is becoming a common language for tracking family history and relationship  Record information about family members and their relationships over at least three generations. Provides a quick gestalt of complex family patterns.  Map family structure and update as patterns and functioning emerge.

4.  Created at any moment in the family’s history, showing the ages and relationships of that moment to better understand family patterns as they evolve through time.  Should be part of any comprehensive clinical assessment, if only to know who is in the family and facts about their current situation.

5.  Basic demographic information  Multigenerational mapping (Bowenian)  Systemic hypothezing for strategic interventions  Projective hypotheses about the workings of the unconscious.  Time-line genograms  Functional families  Attachment diagrams  Spiritual/religious genograms

6.  Complex relational configurations – remarried families  Engaging and tracking of complex, culturally diverse families  Exploring specific issues such as sexuality and sexual history of the family  Making family interventions  Teaching illiterate adults to read  Work and career genograms to facilitate career decision  Gender relationships over the life cycle.

7.  Haley: He said he did not believe in ghosts  Minuchin, Watzlawick, Weakland, and Sluzki – preferred to focus on the relationships in the immediate family  Michael White – saw gathering information as problematic – it “privileges” certain family of origin experiences over other relationships, which may disqualify or fail to honor these other people.

8.  Articulating historical patterns can reveal aspects of the family that have been hidden from family members – “Secrets”  Leads family beyond the one- dimensional linear perspectives that have so often characterized psychological explanations.  Teaches people to think systematically – patterns – noticing more than one pattern at a time

9.  See page 12, fig. 1.3, fig. 1.4  SES  Gender/Sexual orientation  Culture/Ethnicity/Race  Geopolitical structure  Religion/Spirituality

10.  Guides clinicians in using genograms for clinical assessment and intervention  Family members are intricately intertwined in their lives and in death  All of society is ultimately interconnected.  People, problems, solutions, do not exist in a vacuum.

11. “ No one goes anywhere alone, even those who arrive physically alone….We carry with us the memory of many fabrics, a self soaked in our history and our culture.”

12.  Those who are tied together through their common biological, legal, cultural, and emotional history and by their implied future together.  Where you fit in the family structure and large context, can influence your functioning, relational patterns, and the type of family you form in the next generation.  Families repeat themselves.  See fig. 1.5 Context for assessing problems

13. Key words: Nuclear family p.5 Blended family (Step family) Family interactive patterns Shared family rituals Family narratives – Box 1.1 Postmodern outlook Family resiliency Positive psychology Therapist resilience Cultural diversity Box 1.5 Epistemology Monad Dyad/Triad Cybernetics Reciprocal Determinism Constructivist perspective Identified patient

14.  Table 2.2 Stages of the Family Life Cycle (6)  Table 2.3 Common transition points (Duval) (8)  Family life cycles – multidimensional, multicultural, multigenerational perspective  Fig. 2.1  Box 2.2 – Discuss in triads.  Binuclear family  Table 2.5 – Stages – Divorcing families  Remarried families  LGBT families