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Genograms: Assessment and Intervention (Third Edition) (Norton Professional Books)

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This is an excellent book for family and individual therapists. It allows you to get a visual picture of the client's family, both close and extended. This aids other therapists who may also help this client in the future understand what was discovered during the therapy process for the client. A great addition to any therapist's library. It is also a useful tool for those who are interested in recording their family geneology as you don't need to know the person's native language to read the genogram.

Excellent book, easy to understand and put to use, even for first timers. I would recommend this book to anyone who has an interst in learning abount or preparing genograms.

The book gives you a place of evolution in the world of genograms. I studied genograms as a tool in counseling addiction. It is a very good tool for structure, organization and as a hand out.

Genogram software is where we are going. I have tried some software programs and they are where you want to go. If you are reading this, then your interest may be in genograms as a tool. The tool may be best expressed through software.

This book is a grounding for your further explorations in genograms.

One of the many difficulties found in psychotherapy is communicating with relative ease what one professional does with a patient (or client) to another professional. Our notes and comments will always be biased and limited to what we can see, therefore handicapping another person from getting as clear a picture as possible on a persons family.

Genograms have helped greatly in this area and this book, now in it's third edition, has gone a long way towards creating clear and singular criteria for creating a family picture with iconography that everyone in the mental health profession can adopt. It has personally helped me better understand the clinical applications that the genogram has as well as giving me tips and offering insight into family systems therapy.

It is likely that we will all be using some sort of computer software that better helps to illustrate the family and it's interaction, but no computer (at least not yet) will be able to interpret the subtleties involved in family dynamics. That's what this book, and lot's of practice, will help with.

This book is an outstanding review of Genograms, their construction and use. The diagrams of historical cases like Princess Diana, British royal family (Windsors), President Jefferson, Kennedy, Clinton and George Bush, psychologists / psychiatrist's Freud, Jung and Erickson were most interesting. The book provides symbolic codes for mapping family structure, socioeconomic status, religious/spiritual genograms, patterns of family clinical functioning like substance abuse or mental or physical health problems. The chapters provide remarkable incite into psychosocial family structure that individuals, therapists and physicians will find most useful. This is an excellent, well written, highly rated textbook on Genograms. Buy it if you want to learn about Genograms. Rick, MS Psychology.

Another textbook in great condition. Amazon is definitely one of the best online places to shop for books. The book was practically new, and tagged with a great price.

The author put a lot of work into this book. It is excellent! This book helps in knowing how to arrange genograms and the purposes for which they are used.

This book is required for my college Family Therapy class, which is why I purchased it. Hopefully it will end up being a good reference book for me to have on hand in my practice. We did do a basic genogram in class working from the codes in the book, but I can tell that there are some in-depth genograms and focus specific genograms that we will be doing as well. I did not realize that they could be done for so many subjects. I am looking forward to working with the book.

If you want to understand the multigenerational process of your family or other families, whether you are in the field of psychotherapy or not, you should buy this book. I purchased it to learn how to create a genogram for myself and as a prospective MFT.

This book was in better condition then expected, shipped quickly and arrived ontime. I will definitely order books from them again in the future and recommend them to friends & family.