Family Systems

In this lesson, we talked about family systems theory and about genograms. The family systems theory states that families can be distinguished with boundaries and that everyone within that family has a specific role. In an ideal family, the parents are next to each other and there is a dotted line drawn around them. The kids are right underneath the parents and they are part of a subsystem. Genograms are detailed family trees that show patterns within the family. They can show things such as medical history or random patterns such as sudden deaths in the family.