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Crisis Response: Ava's Genogram

Type GenogramStandard McGoldrick, Gerson & Petry (2020)Engine schematex-genogramUpdated 9/6/2026
Crisis Response: Ava's Genogram
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The scenario

Ava, a 15-year-old student, is experiencing academic and emotional difficulties amid parental divorce and conflict. A school social worker creates a genogram to visualize family dynamics and key external supports.

What is in this drawing

Read the decisions behind it.

01

Included school counselor and clinical psychologist as non-family support figures

02

Used emotional relationship lines to depict closeness, focus, conflict, and distance

03

Marked Ava as the index patient to center the assessment

Use this template when constructing genograms for school-based crisis assessments that require mapping both family and professional support networks.

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