Meanwhile, the client’s grandfather from the side of his mother died from stroke, living his wife who is on medications for the control of hypertension. The youngest has migrated to another country and lives with his wife and their daughter who is recovering from a surgery for a heart disease. The client’s father has two other living siblings, the eldest is a 60-year old woman, married but failed to conceive a child. The client’s mother was reported to be more focused on the client due to his condition as compared to his sister, resulting to the jealousy.Included in the diseases that put risks to the client’s healthare obesity, hypertension, heart disease, and cancer, which are in addition to those that are evident with the immediate family members.Ĭancer was also the cause of death of the client’s grandfather from the side of his father, living his grandmother widowed and being taken cared of by her eldest child. They are living with their mother who is currently being treated for diabetes, and became a widow since 2014 after her husband died due to nasopharyngeal cancer.

He is residing with his sister who recently got married and is reported to be undergoing depression and is jealous of her brother. The client is a 23-year old male who is suspected of suffering from alcohol or drug abuse. “Eco-maps”, n.d.).For the purpose of this paper, an ecomap of the ecological network of an individual and his family was established using the GenoPro 2016 Software, as presented in Figure 2. It is used to: (1) determine other people and networks in the client’s or family’s social setting and the means traded among them (2) distinguish the client’s or family’s associations with the community networks and (3) determine networks from which further means might be accessible(“Family and Social Assessment Tools”, n.d. EcomapĪ paper-and-pencil figure of an ecological network where a client or family belongs, along with the major structures, and the associations that influence and are influenced by the client or family, is termed as an ecomap. For the purpose of this paper, a genogram of an individual was established using the GenoPro 2016 Software, as presented in Figure 1.

Included in the uses of genograms are: (1) to recognize distinctly who are present in the “family” complex in order to ascertain who is or possibly be accessible to offer social assistance to a certain individual (2) to recognize the medical history and trends of attitudes that may be significant to an individual’s actual or thought medical or psychologicalcondition and (3) to conceptualize propositions regarding family functioning that can be used during family therapy (“Family and Social Assessment Tools”, n.d.). Genograms appear to be like a genealogy chart or a family tree, which can be utilized in different manners. It also plays the role of a multigenerational evaluation for comprehending family processes and family functioning (Chavis, 2004). It is constituted of simple symbols that portray descriptions with regards to an individual, and such symbols are joined with connectors that give details to the associations of each person (“Genogram Explained”, 2013). Moreover, it also depicts important life experiences including marriage, pregnancy, and even death. It presents the members of the family or household, their gender, age, and corresponding relationships with one another. A simple method of illustrating a family in a constant and comprehensible manner is through the establishment of a genogram.

Ecomap and genogram social work