Genograms

I, too, am looking forward to doing a genogram on my family and that of my husband's. While my family is large, his is small. Unfortunately, it seems that when they have disagreements, they do not talk things out and find a compromise that all can live with. Their relationship are strained and in some cases this manifests itself in alienation and being cut off. This is so sad. Jim (husband/therapist) bought a program to create genograms for his practice several years ago, which he has never used. He wants to try this via the comupter while I try to do it longhand. We will then see how they compare. It has been fun talking to my mother about the family situations. Sometime this week, I have to get ahold of my father's sister and get what I can from her about them. After seeing what one can learn from a genogram, it definitely is a tool I want to become well versed in for use in my practice one day. Good luck everyone. Rhonda F. Brown