Genogram

Walking out of last Thursday’s class, I kind of felt a little uneasy about the Genogram assignment. As some of you have already stated, families can sometimes be very big. On my fathers side of the family I believe there are more than nine or ten brothers and sisters. Some live here in the United States and others live back in Vietnam. My mother has eleven brothers and sisters her side. The majority of my mother’s family I do not know nor talk to. In fact my mother rarely even mentions her family. It will be interesting mapping out not only my immediate family but also three generations of my mother and father not to mention my bazillion cousins.
As far as learning all the different symbols to correctly make a Genogram I am feeling troubled with it as well. I do not want to make the project seem too complicated or unorganized to the person viewing it. I know I will feel a huge relief after completing the project. Hopefully making the Genogram will connect me more to who my family as well as knowing a little bit more about my self. Professionally I believe it is important to understand and be able to read Genograms because with one look you can know the background of a person. I can help you understand who a person is by looking at the significant points in their life. Hopefully by the end of this whole project I can be able to look at a Genogram and read it correctly.