INTRODUCTION
Multiple descriptions are better than one.
—G. Bateson (1979)
In the roughly twenty years following the publication of the first edition of Focused Genograms: Intergenerational Assessment of Individuals, Couples, and Families (DeMaria, Weeks, & Hof, 1999), genogram assessment has received more attention in the literature and stronger empirically based support in clinical practice. Yet, there has been less in the way of theoretical and clinical innovation that has been infused with genogram development. This is part of the reason why, in this second edition of Focused Genograms (FGs), we use the meta-framework and integrative theory of the Intersystem Approach (IA), and more specifically, the rapidly evolving and empirically supported ...
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