The idea of ​​completing a genogram on my family was interesting because most of my family lives in Liberia. I have an aunt who lives here but we are in a separate relationship and don't communicate. The person to whom I could have told everything about my paternal family was my grandmother. However, my grandmother passed away in 2000 due to high blood pressure. My grandparents had six children, and their youngest daughter became my source for the information I needed. Doing this genogram was very difficult for me because I learned that my maternal grandparents are deceased and my aunts and uncles are also deceased. My mother is the only living family member that I know of. I never had the opportunity to have a relationship with my mother's side of the family. My paternal grandfather died around the time I was born, which explains why I don't remember him. I was told he was sick and paralyzed before he died. There is no substance abuse and mental disorders in my family. However, there is high blood pressure in my family because it was the cause of my grandmother's death, as I mentioned above. I have two uncles and an aunt who currently suffer from hypertension and my father has diabetes. Growing up, my parental family was very close and we had great communication. However, since my grandmother passed away, we have experienced estrangement in some relationships. I always thought my Aunt Victoria raised me since I was born, but I didn't move in with her until I was 9 years old. I was informed that I stayed with my mother until I was 2 years old, then I went to live with my paternal grandmother until I was 9 years old. Sometimes, when a child is raised by someone other than the mother, they think the mother doesn't want it. I used to......middle of paper......larity. Working with my family, the therapist will have to join my family and build a therapeutic relationship because I need to know that they can trust the therapist. Every member of my family needs to feel like the therapist is working with them, otherwise the change won't change. occur. Using family mapping will help distinguish the types of boundaries that exist in my family. With disengagement within my family subsystems, using the enactment technique will illustrate the interaction between family members. I am close to the brothers I grew up with and my father and his brothers were very close. That being said, I would love to see the dynamic between my aunts and uncles when they are all in the same room together after years of being apart. I chose structural family therapy because at the end of the therapeutic session I want the restructuring of my family structure.