The marriage is displayed by the horizontal line connecting the corresponding man and woman icons, the husband is displayed on the left, and the wife on the right. The men are indicated by squares on the Genogram and women - by circles.
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In this case, all information needs to be displayed in a clear chronological order. The Genograms help for better understanding the medical, genetic and psychosocial history of patients, allowing detailing the family history of diseases, recognizing the hereditary trends, assessing the risks of developing certain diseases in present and future generations, making more precise diagnosis and offering appropriate effective treatment, eliminating, correcting and preventing negative moments, identifying repetitive models of behavior.Īll the data relating to a particular family are important and have great value for the Genogram: the dates of birth, dates of death of family members of previous generations, the registered and unregistered marriages, divorces, second marriages, all information about children, including the miscarriages and stillbirths. Studying your own roots and educating your ancestors gives you a better understanding of yourself, it allows you to find important information and data, in some cases to identify the source of your own problems, both psychological and physical. It is used as an effective method of family psychotherapy, a method of analysis and correction the family relations because the family experience is invaluable and family roots hold a lot of important information.
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The Genogram describes the family relationships, interactions of generations in the family, important medical data and facts, the main events and changes inside the family in different generations, emotional relationships and connections, psychological factors. The Genogram, also named the McGoldrick–Gerson study, Lapidus schematic or family diagram is a schematic representation of a family, resembling a family tree, but with a slightly different system of outlining and with other purposes.