Social Work Structure
Shows the main family members and relationships in this example.
Social Work Genogram
Family Relationship Lines
Connects couples, parents, children, and siblings in a readable layout.
Generational Context
Places relatives across generations so patterns are easier to see.
Household Details
Leaves room for names, roles, dates, and family notes.
Relationship Status
Supports markers for marriage, separation, loss, conflict, or support.
Case Context
Keeps the visual focused on the family story shown in the hero image.
Review Ready View
Helps teams discuss the same structure before adding deeper notes.
Editable Family Map
Can be extended as new relatives or relationship details are added.
Map family structure, relationship dynamics, significant losses, safety concerns, and support needs using this social work genogram on Creately Clinical.
About the Social Work Genogram
This social work genogram combines a multigenerational family structure with relationship dynamics that can inform assessment, safeguarding, support planning, and collaborative case review.
The example contains 19 people across four family levels. It includes current and former partner relationships, children, extended-family branches, and four relatives marked deceased. The role-based labels keep the example adaptable to a wide range of family configurations and practice settings.
Highlighted relationships add social-work context to the structure. Two connections are labeled Abuse, one combines Abuse with Distant or Poor, and another is labeled Indifferent or Apathetic. Additional directional relationship lines show how relevant interactions can be traced across the family network. Users can add strengths, supportive bonds, caregiving, household membership, services, risks, and protective factors alongside these dynamics.
- Maps 19 people across four family levels
- Includes marriage, divorce, children, and extended-family branches
- Records four deceased relatives
- Highlights four labeled relationship dynamics for assessment and planning
Who Should Use This Example?
This social work genogram can help practitioners and care teams organize family structure, relationships, risks, strengths, and services in one clear view.
Social workers and case managers
Support intake, assessment, safeguarding, formulation, and case planning.
Child, adult, disability, and family-support teams
Map caregivers, households, important relationships, risks, and protective factors.
Multidisciplinary professionals
Coordinate services, referrals, responsibilities, information sharing, and review dates.
Supervisors and students
Use a shared visual for supervision, case conferences, handoffs, and training.
Symbols Used in This Genogram
Standard family symbols establish the structure, while colored and patterned relationship lines add emotional, safety, and interaction context.
Square
Male family member
Circle
Female family member
X through a symbol
Deceased family member
Horizontal partner line
Marriage or partner relationship
Red partner line with status marks
Divorced relationship
Vertical descent line
Parent–child relationship
Zigzag relationship line
Abuse or another harmful dynamic, as defined in the legend
Dashed directional line
Directional relationship or interaction pattern
Text label
Describes a relationship such as Distant / Poor or Indifferent / Apathetic
When to Use This Example
Use this example when social-work practice needs a shared view of family structure, relationships, risks, and resources.
- During intake, family assessment, safeguarding, and case formulation.
- For child, adult, mental-health, disability, and family-support services.
- When planning care, contact, placement, reunification, or multidisciplinary support.
- For supervision, case conferences, referrals, handoffs, and collaborative review.
How to Customize This Genogram
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Map the family and household structure
Add the focus person, relatives, caregivers, partners, former partners, children, household groups, important dates, and living status relevant to the case.
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Record strengths and significant dynamics
Add supportive, close, distant, conflicted, harmful, or interrupted relationships using consistent symbols and concise descriptions.
- 3
Add safety and service context
Record protective factors, caregiving responsibilities, current concerns, agencies, professionals, informal supports, referrals, and existing plans.
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Turn the map into coordinated action
Identify priorities, responsible people, consent and information-sharing arrangements, review dates, safety actions, and practical next steps.
Creately Clinical Capabilities for This Example
Creately Clinical supports social-work assessment with structured case fields, relationship and service views, controlled collaboration, and report-ready outputs.
- Relevant field packs: Social Work and Family Therapy fields for households, support networks, services, risks, relationships, coping, and goals.
- Best-fit view modes: Risk & Services and Relationship Dynamics views for coordinated assessment.
- AI support: Draft from authorized intake notes, then verify sensitive information, sources, and current status.
- Collaboration and reporting: Use comments, role-based access, version history, auto-save, and PDF or DOCX reports.
Frequently Asked Questions
What information should a social work genogram include?
Include the family and household structure, significant relationships, caregiving roles, strengths, important events, safety concerns, services, informal supports, and other information relevant to the agreed purpose.
How should sensitive relationship information be recorded?
Use neutral, specific language; distinguish reported, observed, and confirmed information; record sources and dates; follow consent and safeguarding procedures; and limit access according to professional and organizational requirements.
Can I add agencies and community supports?
Yes. Add social services, healthcare, schools, housing, legal support, nonprofits, faith communities, friends, neighbors, and other formal or informal resources connected to the family.
How can Creately Clinical support social-work assessment?
Custom fields, notes, relationship markers, and visual categories can keep family and service context organized. Shared editing, comments, version history, and exports support supervision, multidisciplinary review, and coordinated updates.
Start in Creately Clinical, then deepen the social-work case view
Edit the genogram to map the family, add supported relationship and safety context, and build a practical shared visual for assessment, planning, and coordinated support.