Genogram Paper
Jermaine Hibbert
Seton Hall University
Genogram Paper
Engaging in the genogram assignment proved to be a challenging, arduous, and enlightening experience to say the least. Although, my genogram is not as extensive and accurate as it could be, that in and of it-self proved to be an area of unexplored learning of growth. Firstly, I will cover the information I was able to glean from my journalism like exploits with the few family members I knew well enough to answer some of the tell-all questions I was expected ask. Secondly, I will attempt to explore and process as best as I can all the limitations, whether self imposed or boundaries that my large, yet somewhat disconnected family has set in place. These limitations …show more content…
My mother emotionally cut off my aunt after an altercation that occurred when we all lived together. The altercation caused my aunt Rose to move out, which was a form of them distancing themselves from each other. Whatever the issue was that brought about the distancing has to this day not been resolved, consequently causing them to not communicate with each other. I witnessed this happening, which contributes to the family projection process that affects the way I communicate with my family as well. Witnessing this style of behavior between my family members could be an integral part of what made me unconsciously emotionally cutoff my father and somewhat my mother. In my life of academia I have always chosen to move away from my nuclear family (mother) that lives in Florida. For undergraduate studies I moved to North Carolina to attend college and play collegiate soccer. Meaning I spent a majority of my three-year tenure distanced from my mother although we would communicate on the phone, it was not daily communication and surface-like in regards to content. Then, when choosing a graduate program I decided on Seton Hall University in New Jersey, which is even farther away from Florida. This allows me to gradually cut off my mother by not having the ability to see each other often and communicating less and less as time passes on. My behavior would be comparable to “geographic separation", by limiting contact and communication between my parental figure and myself. My resistance to acknowledge there is any unresolved in my genogram speaks to this
Jermaine Hibbert
Seton Hall University
Genogram Paper
Engaging in the genogram assignment proved to be a challenging, arduous, and enlightening experience to say the least. Although, my genogram is not as extensive and accurate as it could be, that in and of it-self proved to be an area of unexplored learning of growth. Firstly, I will cover the information I was able to glean from my journalism like exploits with the few family members I knew well enough to answer some of the tell-all questions I was expected ask. Secondly, I will attempt to explore and process as best as I can all the limitations, whether self imposed or boundaries that my large, yet somewhat disconnected family has set in place. These limitations …show more content…
My mother emotionally cut off my aunt after an altercation that occurred when we all lived together. The altercation caused my aunt Rose to move out, which was a form of them distancing themselves from each other. Whatever the issue was that brought about the distancing has to this day not been resolved, consequently causing them to not communicate with each other. I witnessed this happening, which contributes to the family projection process that affects the way I communicate with my family as well. Witnessing this style of behavior between my family members could be an integral part of what made me unconsciously emotionally cutoff my father and somewhat my mother. In my life of academia I have always chosen to move away from my nuclear family (mother) that lives in Florida. For undergraduate studies I moved to North Carolina to attend college and play collegiate soccer. Meaning I spent a majority of my three-year tenure distanced from my mother although we would communicate on the phone, it was not daily communication and surface-like in regards to content. Then, when choosing a graduate program I decided on Seton Hall University in New Jersey, which is even farther away from Florida. This allows me to gradually cut off my mother by not having the ability to see each other often and communicating less and less as time passes on. My behavior would be comparable to “geographic separation", by limiting contact and communication between my parental figure and myself. My resistance to acknowledge there is any unresolved in my genogram speaks to this