The purpose of this application paper is to get a greater understanding of my past and how it has shaped my future using Lazzloffy’s Systemic Family Development Model and applying Ecological Systems Theory. I will do this by dictating my genogram and ecomap so I can acknowledge my own biases. I examine certain components of my life course through personal experiences I have had throughout the years to help bring my genogram to reality. I also explain how such tools like the genogram and ecomap can benefit me in the social work practice. I identify family relationships that are not close and explain my fears of a generational pattern I foresee. My findings were the relational process between my maternal side were unresolved. I also realized
