Throughout my childhood I have been involved in 4-H. One of my favorite projects to do is on my family history. I have spent summers making family trees and compiling photos and stories about family members and our ancestors. So you can imagine my excitement when I found out that a genogram was very similar to a family tree.
A family tree looks mostly at how people are related and the dates of important events in a persons life (birth, marriage, death). Those days are set in stone you can't change them. A genogram however, also shows the relationships people have with one another. And relationships can change (both for the good or bad).
I think that it is important to realize that the genogram you draw for class may look very different 10 years down the road. More importantly, you have an impact on the way your experiences change and shape your genogram. For example, my family has recently been through a really tough time with the sudden passing of my grandmother. We were always a close family, but because much of my extended family, including myself, was in her hospital room when she passed away has fused us even closer. Sharing with them the last minutes of her life was both a blessing and a struggle for us all. We get together a lot more often with each other even though we are all over the state. Grandma thought is was very important to bring family together...and we joke now that she does it even more.
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