Genogram Analysis: Exploring Family Relationships

Genogram as a Tool

Creating a genogram is one of the many ways I can lay out my family structure and clearly see the relationships between members of our family and the strong emotions between us.

While building my genogram, I talked with 5 relatives who gave me complete data about my family members. Based on my own observations and information, I have created a genogram of 3 generations, including my parents, my grandparents, and myself. My mom's and father's sides of my family are both quite large. Despite the fact that the structure and gender roles of my family are complex, and we have our strengths and weaknesses, I believe that discussing those attributes can give us a better understanding of our lives today. On my mother's side, my grandmother and grandfather, who is deceased, had many children, including my mom, who has two daughters: my sister and me. My older sister is married.

Family Relations in My Genogram

I want to share something about my dad's father, my grandfather. He doesn't have any disease except asthma. He experienced issues with his job; he was given a sack and had nothing to do but drink more and more to suppress his terrible feelings and emotions. However, it was not he who suppressed his negative emotions; it was they that suppressed him. With each passing day, he drank more and more. My grandmother, Khina Mainali, felt like she was losing him, as he was drinking alcohol and distancing himself from her. It was dreadful; my dad, Devi Mainali, told me that when he was young, he lived in constant abuse from the side of his father. Due to the fact that his father couldn't earn money since he was drunk all the time, they lived poorly. My grandmother was in a constant state of depression. In addition to depression, she developed arthritis. They lived under constant tension of memories and emotions associated with their past.

Currently, my grandmother has diabetes, asthma, and cholesterol. She is an elderly person now, 89, but I believe that if she had not been suffering in the past, she would not have heart disease and broken relationships with my excellent mother. Maybe my great mother would not have experienced arthritis now if she had not been in depression in the past because it is stress that causes our organism to experience different diseases. My other grandfather, Bala Bhadra Dhaurali, and my grandmother, Pampha Dhaurali, did not have a better relationship than my dad's father.

Works Cited

1. McGoldrick, M., Gerson, R., & Shellenberger, S. (Eds.). (2014). Genograms: Assessment and Intervention. Routledge.

2. Pedersen, P. B., & Draguns, J. G. (2001). Counseling across cultures (5th ed.). Sage Publications.

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3. Potts, M., & Minnis, A. M. (2015). Genograms in Family Assessment. In The Palgrave Handbook of Social Theory in Health, Illness and Medicine (pp. 383-399). Palgrave Macmillan