Genogram

Quiz instructions:

This Quiz consists of 10 multiple-choice or true-false questions. Each question is worth 1 point. Questions are presented in a random order. This Quiz allows you to go back to check or change your answers at any point during your allotted Quiz time. You may use your course readings and other resources to help you. This Quiz is open book. You will have unlimited time to finish this Quiz by the end of the week. You must pass the Quiz at 90% for competency. Once the Quiz has been submitted, the correct answer will be indicated when you have given an incorrect answer. If you need to retake the Quiz, a new Quiz will be generated. You must pass this week’s Quiz to proceed to the Quiz next week

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Assignment: Collaborating on a Family Genogram As you found out in Week 5, it is important as a counselor working with couples and families to understand one’s own family dynamics. Exploring your family dynamics helps you understand where you come from, issues that have influenced your family and can help you overcome any issues that may be a challenge. After creating your own genogram, hopefully you now realize all the valuable information contained in a genogram that may not have been recognized or considered before the use of this vital assessment tool.

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Week 9 Competency-Based Quiz

For this Assignment, you will apply what you have learned about genograms and your own family by collaborating with a friend to create his/her family genogram. As you work with your friend, keep in mind that you must take the ethical and legal considerations of working with this sensitive information very seriously.

To Prepare:

Review the article, “Cultural Genogram: A Tool for Teaching and Practice” from the Week 4 Learning Resources. Select a friend to complete a genogram assessment. (Please avoid using a family member since you just completed your own genogram on your family.) Use the theoretical information presented in this module to help you construct your genogram assessment. Review the Optional Learning Resources for this week to become familiar with the symbols and information included in a genogram.

Assignment:

Create a genogram assessment of a friend co-worker, or neighbor’s family including three generations (i.e., your friend and their siblings, their parents and parent’s siblings, and their grandparents and siblings OR your friend’s children, your friend and their siblings, and your friend’s parents and parent’s siblings. The genogram is drawn by hand, photographed, and submitted as an image in your three-page summary. Include family dynamics, communication styles, mental/physical health, boundaries and family patterns and include a master key to the genogram. Birth dates, or ages, help provide context, so please provide as much detail as you can. Summarize the genogram you created by describing the roles and patterns that emerge in it, using concepts from the systems theories that are discussed in this week's Learning Resources. The summary should be in APA format and 3 pages maximum. Explain how this genogram assessment may be useful in couples and family counseling of this friend. Briefly explain how your understanding of your friends’ genogram assessment might impact your work as a counselor. Your final document will include a title page in APA format, a genogram, a three-page summary of your genogram, and your reference page.

Support your Assignment by citing all resources in APA style, including those in the Learning Resources.

By Day 7

Submit the genogram of your friend’s family.

Submission and Grading Information

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Please save your Assignment using the naming convention “WK9Assgn+last name+first initial. (extension)” as the name. Click the Week 9 Assignment Rubric to review the Grading Criteria for the Assignment. Click the Week 9 Assignment link. You will also be able to “View Rubric” for grading criteria from this area. Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My Computer button. Find the document you saved as “WK9Assgn2+last name+first initial.(extension)” and click Open. If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox for I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database. Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.

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Week 9 Assignment

This week, you analyzed interventions and techniques specific to cognitive behavioral and narrative theories, and you collaborated with a friend to create his/her family genogram.

Next week, you will finish the course with a final exam and, Module 3: Special Topics and Contemporary issues. You will review the material covered throughout this course to prepare for and take your Final Exam. You will also search the Walden Library databases for articles on a contemporary issue facing families, and you will discuss the impact of that issue on the family system and those involved.

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Module 3: Special Topics and Contemporary issues