Genogram Reflection

After concluding the genogram, it dawned on me that my family didn’t necessarily have many issues regarding emotional relationships. I think most of it has to deal with the recent transition of a laid-back household to a religious household where my parents are very much involved with the church alongside my younger siblings. With that being said I did notice that my paternal family had a higher chance of dying young whereas my maternal family had a much longer lifespan. I also took into consideration that the marriages that occurred where between individuals that where only a couple of years apart from one another. I can’t claim any educational patterns that have occurred within the household since I’ve been the only one who’s attended college. However, I do have hope that me attending college will influence my younger siblings to also want to go. Another thing that I found within the …show more content…
So much so that my mother calls my grandmother every single night and she personally goes to her house and drives her to church to attend both the morning and the afternoon sermon. Another strength that I found in the genogram is that me and my sister have a very close relationship. Reason being that I’m very keen of helping her out in her school assignments and homework and I think that for the most part she’s very grateful that I’m there to help her complete her homework since we both come from an only Spanish speaking household. I realized that we had a close relationship because after valentine’s day she went up to me and she told me that she was sad because no one had given her anything for valentine’s day to which I responded with getting her a huge pink flamingo and a box of chocolates and she has been very attached to me ever since because she realized that I went out of my way to actually get her something to make her