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Basic Genogram

This document outlines the basic genogram symbols used to represent relationships and information in a family tree diagram or genogram. Key symbols include: male and female symbols to represent gender; lines to connect married, unmarried, or same-sex couples; placement of birth/death dates within symbols; lines to connect parents to children listed from oldest to youngest; and additional symbols to denote things like marital status, mental health issues, abuse, and relationship dynamics.

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Basic Genogram

This document outlines the basic genogram symbols used to represent relationships and information in a family tree diagram or genogram. Key symbols include: male and female symbols to represent gender; lines to connect married, unmarried, or same-sex couples; placement of birth/death dates within symbols; lines to connect parents to children listed from oldest to youngest; and additional symbols to denote things like marital status, mental health issues, abuse, and relationship dynamics.

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The Basic Genogram Symbols

Male: Female: Birth Date Age – inside symbol Death Date Death = X
8-10-’41 10-4-2001
34

written above written inside written above


left of symbol symbol right of symbol

Marriage Living Together, Affair, Lesbian Couple Gay Couple


or Intimate Relationship

m. 1970 LT 1975
LT 1991 LT 1993
LT = Living Together

Marital Separation Divorce Getting back together after Divorce

m. 1970 s. 1985 m. 1970 d. 1987 d. 1987 remar. 1990

Children: List in birth order beginning with the oldest on the left
’77 ’77 ’79 ’81

’70 ’73 ’76 ’83 ’83 ’85 ’85


M A
27 25 22 Stillbirth
Miscarriage Abortion Pregnancy

Biological Foster Adopted Twins Identical Twins


Child Child Child

• Two people who are married are connected by lines that go down and across, with the husband on
the left and the wife on the right.
• Couples that are not married are depicted with a dotted line.
• Children are drawn left to right, going from the oldest to the youngest.
CMP 105 Adapted from: Power, Thomas A., ACSW.
Family / Child Assessment Family Matters: A Layperson’s Guide to
12/2005 Family functioning. Hathaway press,
SJ New Hampshire, 1992
Symbols Denoting Drug, Alcohol, and/or Mental Problems

In Recovery from Serious mental or Drug/Alcohol Abuse


Drug or Alcohol Suspected Drug or Alcohol physical problem & Physical or Mental
Abuse Abuse Abuse problem

Symbols Denoting Interactional Patterns between People

Close Distant Close-Hostile Foscused On

Fused Hostile Fused-Hostile Cutoff

Sexual Abuse Physical Abuse

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