#Genogram in social work professional

A theoretical understanding of social versus psychological art is outlined. Ways to overcome these challenges and to utilize the benefits were discussed. Challenges were the unfamiliarity of art language and fear of being 'diagnosed' through art. The findings point to the usefulness of including creative genograms in family social work contexts to intensify information, engagement, and stimulation and to re-perceive calcified problems through new visual terms. This participatory research gathers the self-defined, phenomenological experience of family social workers who experienced creative genograms firstly on themselves and then administered it with their clients: Examples are analyzed within the text.

Creative genograms enable families to phenomenologically self-define recurring themes and issues, thus combining both historical, but also, experiential data on the same page. Communication.Genograms are widely used in family therapy as a way of visually mapping out systems and recurring family patterns. The current paper attempts to highlight about the orientation of genogram, history, and its utility in psychiatric social work practice in changing social scenario.

In the present scenario, mental health professionals often ignore or underutilise these tools in assessment, diagnostic formulation, and as an intervention tool due to lack of time, inadequate knowledge about the application of tools in different situations. These symbols are graphical, circle, rectangular, dotted lines, straight lines, vertical lines, etc.

This tool helps the mental health professional to recognise visual representation of the individual, family, and disorders running in the family through specified coding or symbols in a snap shot observation. It is a standard tool to assess the composition and structure of one's family background, roles, pattern of communication, social interactions, and interrelationship with the environment. The purpose of drawing genogram is to map out the complex interpersonal relation present in the family and their biopsychosocial environment. Genogram depicted through pictorial form used to illicit and display the three or more generational information tract the source of stressors and available resources. This visual representation helps you to understand about the relationships and networks associated with the family.

Genogram is a useful tool to gather information about the family and guide the clinical practitioner for intervention. *Correspondence: Dr. Gobinda Majhi, Department of Psychiatric Social Work, NIMHANS, Institute of National Importance, Bengaluru-560029, Karnataka, India. Majhi Gobinda 1, *, Reddy Sadananda 2, Muralidhar D 3ġAsssistat Professor, Department of Psychiatric Social Work, NIMHANS, Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaĢPsychiatric Social Worker, Department of Psychiatric Social Work, NIMHANS, Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaģProfessor, Department of Psychiatric Social Work, NIMHANS, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India The use of family genogram in psychiatric social work practice Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences

#Genogram in social work professional