Ecomap examples.
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What an ecomap is.
An ecomap is a visual map of a person’s or family’s relationships with the systems around them. The person or household is at the center, with family, services, institutions, and community groups around the edge.
Relationship lines can distinguish strong support, strain, distance, or regular contact. That makes the drawing useful for discussing both resources and pressures in someone’s environment.
- Standard
- Hartman (1978) + NSGC
- Engine
- schematex-ecomap
- Editable
- Double-click text, drag nodes
- Export
- SVG · PNG · PDF
Who uses ecomaps.
Coordinate the family, school, specialist, health, respite, and peer supports around a child.
Record school, counseling, legal, childcare, faith, and extended-family connections during a family transition.
Review the family, school, health, court, support-group, and neighborhood network around a caregiving household.
How to make an ecomap in three steps.
Describe it
One paragraph is enough to start.
See the drawing
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Say what changes
Every edit keeps a version.
Common questions
What is an ecomap?
An ecomap is a diagram of a person or family’s relationships with their social environment, including supports and sources of stress.
What should an ecomap include?
Include the focal person or household, relevant family and community systems, and labels that explain the strength or nature of each connection.
Who uses ecomaps?
Social workers, nurses, counselors, educators, and families use ecomaps to discuss support networks and service relationships.
How is an ecomap different from a genogram?
A genogram focuses on family structure and history. An ecomap focuses on the current relationships between a person or family and the wider environment.
Other drawings for the same work.
See the support system around a person or family.
Free account, no card. Start with the central household and the relationships that matter.
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