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	Culturagram	Ecomap Analysis
Field	Social Work	Social Work
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	1994	1978
Originator	Elaine P. Congress	Ann Hartman
Type	Visual family-assessment tool for understanding the influence of culture	Graphical, qualitative person-in-environment assessment tool
Seminal source	Congress, E. P. (1994). The use of culturagrams to assess and empower culturally diverse families. Families in Society, 75(9), 531–540.	Hartman, A. (1978). Diagrammatic assessment of family relationships. Social Casework, 59(8), 465–476.
Aliases	Culturagram Assessment, Congress Culturagram, Cultural Assessment Map, Culturagram Family Assessment	Ecomap, Eco-Map, Ecological Map, Hartman Ecomap
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Summary	The culturagram is a visual family-assessment tool that helps social workers understand the influence of culture on a family by placing the family at the center of a diagram surrounded by ten culturally relevant dimensions — from reasons for relocation and legal status to language, health beliefs, holidays, and contact with cultural institutions. Created by Elaine Congress in 1994, it individualizes families who might otherwise be stereotyped by ethnicity, makes cultural context explicit and discussable, and is used to both assess and empower culturally diverse families.	An ecomap is a graphical map of a household or individual set within their social environment, showing the connections between the focal system and the external systems around it — extended family, work, school, health care, friends, agencies, religion, and recreation — and coding each connection as strong, tenuous, or stressful, with arrows for the flow of energy and resources. Ecomap analysis is the practice of drawing and interpreting this map to assess the person-in-environment, the central organizing concept of social work. It was introduced by Ann Hartman in 1978.