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Impact of Addiction on Family and Finances

Consciously Form What We Do To Create Positive Financial Outcomes

  • Home
  • About Me
  • Facing Financial Uncertainty
    • Making Ends Meet
    • Managing Debt
    • Create A Plan To Communicate with Your Creditors
    • Communicate With Your Creditors
    • Plan Your Spending
  • Financial Assessment
    • Assessing the Financial Costs of Using
    • Maintain Organized Financial Records
    • Manage Cash Flow and Build Net Worth
    • What Are My Life Needs?
    • Identify My Life Needs
    • Plan Your Spending
    • Use Credit Wisely
    • Maintain Adequate Insurance Coverage
    • Manage Savings and Investments Wisely
    • Criteria for Selecting Savings and Investments
    • Types of Savings and Investments
    • Maintain Your Pre-Retirement Lifestyle During Retirement
    • Pay Necessary Taxes But No More
    • Create and Maintain A Current Estate Plan
    • Own a Business – Practice Management Assessment
  • Financial Worksheets
    • Cost of Substance Use For One Year Inventory
    • My Life Needs
    • Cash Flow Inventory
    • Net Worth Inventory
    • Sources of Income Inventory
    • Spending Tracker Inventory
    • Types of Expenses
    • How Does My Spending Compare?
    • How Much Do I Owe – Debt Inventory
    • Insurance Inventory
    • Savings and Investment Inventory
    • Location of Important Records
    • Personal and Family Information
    • Professional and Personal Advisers
  • Moving Beyond Losses
    • My Life! Create-Fund- Enjoy
    • Use Family Genogram to Observe Family Functioning Patterns
    • The Decades of My LIfe And How They Have Shaped How I Do What I Do
    • How We Form What We Do
    • Subsystems of the Non-Physical Self
    • What Was My Part?
    • Use My Creative Capacity to Find My Way Through Any Difficulty
    • At Peace or Disturbed
    • Forming How We Meet Our Life Needs
    • Choices and Consequences
    • Not satisfied – what next?
  • About Addiction

Use Family Genogram to Observe Family Functioning Patterns

A family genogram is a picture of our family tree. It can be helpful in thinking about how we formed the functioning patterns we use to manage money. 

We learned how to form what we do as we grew up in our early environment.  A family genogram is a picture of our family that includes three generations.  It gives us information about the patterns of interaction in our family of origin that influenced how we do what we do today.  You can use the information below entitled Family Genogram Diagram and Symbols as a guide to draw your family genogram.  

Family Genogram Diagram and Symbols

If you have a large family, you may need more than one sheet of paper.

  • If you have a significant other and/or children, follow these instructions.
  • At the bottom of the page, draw a symbol to reflect you.  Draw a square for a male or circle for female.  Or you may use the symbols of your choice to describe individuals.  If you have a significant other, draw a symbol for your significant other.  If you have had more than one significant other, reflect them on this line.  Draw a line to connect you and your significant other(s).  If you have children, list your children below you and the significant other with whom you share a child.  This will be Generation
  • Draw a line up to Generation 2.  Draw symbols to identify and describe your parents and your siblings.  If you wish, you can draw symbols for the parents and siblings of your significant other.  Generation 2 will be your parents and siblings. 
  • Draw a line up and draw symbols to identify and describe your grandparents and their children.
  • Use the Family Genogram Symbols attached to the sample Family Genogram Diagram, to provide additional details that can help create an overview of your family and their life patterns.
    • date of birth, death, serious illness,  
    • date of marriage, separation, or divorce
    • nature of relationships – conflict, 2 people cut off from each other close                           intense relationship
    • gambling or substance addiction
    • mental illness, suicide
    • quality of parent- child relationship
    • adopted chld
    • Pregnancy
    • Miscarriage or abortion
    • Twins
    • Highest level of formal education
  • If you are single follow these instructions.  If you are not in a relationship and if you do not have children, your chart might be different. Generation 1 at the bottom of the family genogram would be your parents and your siblings including you.  Generation 2 would be your grandparents and your parent’s siblings.  Generation 3 would be your great grandparents and their children.
  • If you do not know much information about your family genogram, write down what  you know.
  • Once you have completed your family genogram, look at it see if there family patterns that you see have influenced how you live your life today.

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About Esther

Esther Maddux

Hi! I’m Esther – Resource Management Consultant.  Join me in discussing family and financial issues related to substance abuse and addiction.

 

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