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Practice Commentary
Kirk D. Gulden, MD
Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(12):1098.
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Central to family practice is an appreciation of the inseparability of the mind and body in various disease states. Rogers' review of the family genogram literature about the management of anxiety and depression indicates its limited but useful role in risk stratification, especially when knowledge of the family history is combined with individual demographics. Incorporating questions that elicit a family history of anxiety and depression along with questions about organic diseases and family relationships adds value to the family genogram tool.
For 14 years, my group practice of four family physicians has used a family genogram as part of the family folder in which all household members' medical records are stored. At the initial visit of a member of a new family, a medical assistant draws the genogram in the family folder based on the answers to standard questions about any family history of alcoholism, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, myocardial infarction
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Author Affiliations
Wilkes Family Health Center, PA North Wilkesboro, NC
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