Chapter 1: The Family Tree: Schematic Drawing of the Family System
- Family Medicine
- Family systems perspective
- Suggestion

Chapter 2: Creating a Family Tree
- Schematic diagram of family structure
- Creating a family tree for couples with multiple spouses
- Unknown information
- Exploring family patterns in a family tree
Demographic information: gathering 'facts'
- Functional pattern
- Family relationships and roles
- Adding socio-environmental factors to the family tree
- Cultural Family Tree: Race, Ethnicity, Religion, Spirituality, and Migration
- Socioeconomic status and family tree
- Religious/spiritual family tree
- Community network family tree
- Issues that are difficult to show in a family tree

Chapter 3: Interviews for Family Trees
- Family Information Network
- Questions about appeal issues and nuclear families
- Current situation
- Extension to the family context
- How to deal with family resistance when creating a family tree
- Religious and cultural history
- Potential problems in the interviewer himself
- Questions about cultural beliefs and experiences
- Sensitive questions about culture and social status
- Informal kinship network
- Exploring family processes
- Sensitive questions about individual functioning
- Determine key priorities for organizing family tree information
- Essential elements to cover in a simple genealogy interview

Chapter 4: Exploring Family Patterns Across Time and Space
- Major life events
- Family Chronicle
- A major coincidence
- Major life changes or traumatic events
- Anniversary reaction
- The position of the family in historical time: social, economic, and political events
- Complex family tree
- Complex families and consanguineous marriages: families with multiple connections
- Children raised in mixed-family homes
- Lost information
- Inconsistent information
- Ethical Family Tree
- Occupational family tree
- Academic pedigree

Chapter 5: Interpreting Family Structure
- Furniture composition
- Birth order
- Unique family patterns
- Children growing up in diverse families: foster care, adoption, and orphan experiences

Chapter 6: Family Patterns and Function Assessment
- Family structure
- Role
- Level and form of function
- Exploring elasticity
- Family resources

Chapter 7: Relationship Patterns and Triangles
- Love triangle
- Parent-child triangle
- Typical love triangle between couples
- Love triangles in divorced or remarried families
- The love triangle between foster children and adoptive families
- A multi-generational love triangle
- Relationships with people outside the family
- Love triangle over time

Chapter 8: Exploring Individuals and Families Through the Life Cycle
- Erik Erikson's life cycle
- The Freud Family Life Cycle

Chapter 9 Clinical Applications of Pedigrees
- Genealogical interview for intervention
- Handling Resistance During Genealogy Interviews
- Clarification of family patterns
- Reconstruction and treatment of family problems
- Using genealogy in treatment design
- Use your family tree to change your current relationships
- Interventions in family medicine
- Family patterns, significant events, life stresses, and cultural issues

Chapter 10 Family Play Family Tree
- Invigorate therapy using a play family tree
- Jenny's play family tree
- Things to use in family play genealogy
- Practice various family tree games
Alexis's Case: Remarriage with Child Sexual Abuse Issues
- The Noguchi Family: A Family Made Up of Foreigners

Chapter 11: Family Research Using Pedigrees
- Reliability research in family medicine
- Research on reliability in family therapy
- Research on clinical usefulness
- Use of pedigrees and ecograms in clinical practice
- Qualitative study of family trees
- Software program
- Ethical and legal limitations

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