Culturagram
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.
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- Congress, E. P. (1994). The use of culturagrams to assess and empower culturally diverse families. Families in Society, 75(9), 531–540. · DOI 10.1606/1044-3894.1483
- Congress, E. P. (2013). Using the culturagram to assess and empower culturally diverse families. In E. P. Congress & M. J. González (Eds.), Multicultural Perspectives in Social Work Practice with Families (3rd ed.). Springer Publishing. · ISBN 9780826108296
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