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Successful therapy and counseling must be oriented to existing relationships and life circumstances.

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In order to understand the familial and social relationships of one s clients, the therapist can use various means to depict the ongoing therapy and counseling processes. Genograms and network analysis are the best-known tools to this end.What is the present life situation of the client and what is the client s history? What is the structure of the client s family and what resources do clients have at their disposal? These are the things a counselor needs to know before beginning to work with the client s system.Jürgen Beushausen presents a number of case examples to illustrate three methods for looking at the client and the client s world: the genogram, the network analysis and the visual analysis. Of particular practical interest in all forms of psychosocial work is the downloadable annotated manual for creating genograms.

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Beushausen, Jürgen
Dr. Jürgen Beushausen, Kinder- und Jugendlichenpsychotherapeut, systemischer Therapeut/Familientherapeut, lehrt im Fachbereich Soziale Arbeit und Gesundheit an der Hochschule Emden-Leer und ist als Supervisor tätig.

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