Getting Started

A social worker’s awareness and comprehension of their own spiritual background benefit their practice with clients, including in the family and group settings. In this activity, you will develop and submit your family’s spiritual ecogram or genogram using the key provided in either reading. You will briefly discuss the benefit of this depiction.

Upon successful completion of this assignment, you will be able to:

• Develop self-reflection and self-regulation to effectively manage the intersection of personal and professional values. (PO 1)

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Resources

• Textbook: Social Work with Groups: Comprehensive Practice and Self-Care

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Background Information

As discussed throughout the course, self-awareness and self-reflection are critical to developing the ability to engage with clients as a social work professional in any setting, including in family and group interactions.

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Instructions

1. Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.
2. In your textbook, Social Work with Groups: Comprehensive Practice and Self-Care, read Chapter 9 “Social Work with Families.”
3. Create your family’s spiritual eco-map or genogram using the key provided in the reading. Include the primary components described in the readings. In the heading, be sure to label the type of spirituality assessment tool you are using. Depict at least three (preferably four) generations of your family (for example, you and your siblings, your parents, and your grandparents, plus either your children or nieces and nephews or your great-grandparents).
4. In a 150- to 200-word summary underneath the ecogram or genogram, explain how the depiction sheds light on your individual and family experience of spirituality. Discuss briefly how this tool would help a social worker work with your family in any life challenges or transitions. Disclose at the level to which you find healthy and beneficial for your learning.