FRHD 3400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Genogram

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3400
• Professor: Tuuli Kukkonen

Document Summary

Chapter 9: focusing the counseling session- exploring the story. Focusing is a skill you may not see in other books. Its mission is to help you and your clients think of creative new possibilities for restorying and action. The systematic framework of focusing can help in reframing and reconstructing problems, concerns, issues, and challenges. The skill of focus- ing is the clearest way to (1) stress the importance of the individual and (2) expand awareness of how individual clients develop in social context especially community and family. Over this and the next chapter on empathic confrontation we will present an example of how counseling changes memory. This rst session introduces the community genogram, a systematic way to review old positive memories and help clients see themselves in social context. The community genogram provides a visual picture that helps us understand the client"s personal and cultural background.