ABSTRACT

This chapter describes how we combine narrative and solution-based interventions with genogram construction. While these approaches might appear theoretically divergent, they are in fact compatible at the level of application (Kuehl, 1995; 1996). More important, there is a subpopulation of clients for whom combining techniques from these approaches makes good sense. In the sections that follow, we orient this intervention in the current climate of family therapy theory, specify technique, and weave a clinical example throughout For the reader who wants to learn more about genogram construction, we recommend McGoldrick and Gerson (1985).