Ecomaps as Visual Tools for Deconstructing Reciprocal Influences: Triage with Disruptive Students at an Alternative School

Autor/inn/en	Carpenter-Aeby, Tracy; Aeby, Victor G.; Boyd, Jane S.
Titel	Ecomaps as Visual Tools for Deconstructing Reciprocal Influences: Triage with Disruptive Students at an Alternative School
Quelle	In: School Community Journal, 17 (2007) 2, S.45-72 (28 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1059-308X
Schlagwörter	Nontraditional Education; Social Systems; Family Life; Family Counseling; Social Environment; Affective Behavior; Intergenerational Programs; Family (Sociological Unit); Interdisciplinary Approach; Intervention; Behavior Problems; Case Studies; At Risk Persons; Resistance to Change + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Non-traditional education; Alternative Erziehung; Social system; Soziales System; Family counselling; Familienberatung; Soziales Umfeld; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Familie; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Risikogruppe
Abstract	Ecomaps are diagrams that depict an individual or a family within a societal context, demonstrating the energy, supports, and resources necessary to maintain specific relationships. Genograms are family trees that identify emotional relationships and intergenerational family patterns. When combined, practitioners can synthesize the information to demystify the intricate web of social systems and the tension and strain between families and other systems such as schools. For the purposes of this paper, ecomaps will portray genograms in the center to symbolize a family system, as a sort of snapshot in time. This paper illustrates six typical yet successful cases at an alternative school in which ecomaps were used as an interdisciplinary method of communication among systems when working with families in the school community. The ecomap provides a common language and understanding of problem-saturated families by depicting families and students as participating members of the school community who have feelings, emotions, and relationships that may influence the students' ability to perform in school and become productive citizens. (Contains 2 tables and 6 figures.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10