The couple has been married for 22 years, and both children were born into the marital family. The assessed family consists of the four members: mother A., father T., daughter C., and her younger brother J.
The questionnaire with an answer summary may be found in Appendix A.ģ22 specialists online Family Information In terms of the following paper, the family of four people will be analyzed on the matter of family health with the help of a designed questionnaire that will help estimate the family’s ecomap and genogram. One of the major influencers in terms of one’s health is family, as family members are both physically and mentally related, causing a drastic impact on each other’s health patterns. Scholars define health behaviors as any actions or patterns that might potentially influence the overall health condition and mortality risk (Fadlon & Nielsen, 2019). Such factors as family genetics, illness history, community lifestyle directly influence the overall health condition of an individual, contributing to the rapid changes in one’s health behaviors. While some people claim health to be a highly individual matter that could be controlled by regular check-ups and healthy lifestyle habits, the very roots of the issue go far beyond one’s health assessment. Joseph’s Hospice Core Assessments & each patient’s ecomap will be displayed in our Multi-Disciplinary meetings to ensure that the patient & their world are kept the centre of our focus.The notion of health in today’s social paradigm has become one of the most significant aspects of one’s lifestyle and role within the community. The ecomap is as individual as the person and a positive is that it can show spiritual domains that are very important to the person to help cope with illness this can include transpersonal beings (angels, demons, ancestors).Įcomaps are now included in St. It is therefore used for assessment, planning & intervention. The systems theory is useful in looking at an individual’s systems (their support network) to recognise & promote strengths and to sustain relationships that are under strain, it is at the heart of person centred planning. clubs, societies & other groups that can provide support. Providing emotional support & advice.įormal systems e.g. It is underpinned by the Systems Theory as described by Pincus & Minahan (1973) The ecomap is a graphical representation of an individual or family and their interaction with other people & their environment. The term eco is derived from the Greek ecology - the pattern of relationships between plants, animals & people to each other & their surroundings.
Initially it was used as a tool to show family life but Dr Hartmann then recognised that it was a useful tool to show a diagrammatic picture of a person’s life and helped clients view their situation from an outside perspective. When doing good quality assessments for patients at St Joseph’s Hospice it was recognised that genograms did not tell the whole story – so I looked to Ecomapsĭr Ann Hartmann developed the ecomap as part of her social work practice in 1975.
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