Genograms for social work students
Your MSW assessments run on person-in-environment, and field placement wants a genogram that drops straight into the psychosocial, not a decorative family tree. Genogram Pro draws households and support circles alongside all 37 emotional bond types, and the AI builds the first draft from your intake notes. When the picture reaches past the family, the same tool builds an ecomap too.
- Free editor, no signup
- 37 emotional bond types
- Household groupings
- AI builds it from text
Used by social work students at
- University College London
- Montclair State University
- Boston College
- Lancaster University
- Louisiana State University
- NC State University
- San Diego State University
- University of Hawaii
- Indiana University
What the psychosocial assessment asks for
A blank canvas, a real family
Generalist practice asks you to map a client system. Turning an intake into three generations of households and bonds is where most tools leave you stuck.
Agency tools skip the relationship lines
The forms and templates you get on placement draw boxes and links. None of them show closeness, conflict, or cutoff, the patterns your case formulation rests on.
A hand-drawn diagram in a case file
A sketch redrawn after every edit looks rough next to a typed assessment. Your field instructor reads it as unfinished work.
Student budget is real
You are not buying an agency license to finish one assessment. The free editor builds and exports without a card.
Built for the client system
It opens with the notation and groupings your placement expects, ready to use.
- 37 emotional relationship types
- Closeness, conflict, cutoff, caregiving, and more, each drawn in standard McGoldrick notation with one click.
- Household and support groupings
- Show who lives with whom and who provides care by grouping people into households and support circles on the canvas.
- AI builds the first draft
- Paste your intake notes and the AI lays out the people, households, and relationships for you to refine.
- Export for the case file
- Download a clean PDF or PNG that reads as professional work in an assessment or assignment.
What it looks like on the canvas
The relationships and symbols from your coursework, drawn in standard McGoldrick notation.
Your field instructor reads genograms
Supervisors know the notation. A diagram that uses the wrong symbol for cutoff or skips the household lines costs you credibility on placement. Genogram Pro keeps you on standard notation by default.
- Standard McGoldrick symbols for sex, vital status, pregnancy, and loss
- Correct relationship lines for closeness, conflict, cutoff, and caregiving
- Household and support groupings to show who lives and cares for whom
- Clean PDF and PNG export sized for a case file or assignment
Every symbol follows McGoldrick notation. See the full genogram symbols reference.
Genograms and ecomaps, side by side
A genogram maps the family. An ecomap maps everything around it: school, work, healthcare, housing, friends, and the agencies in the case. For person-in-environment assessment it is the other half of the picture, and Genogram Pro builds both. Start a genogram, then add an ecomap for the same client.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Genogram Pro free for students?
Does it use the notation my program teaches?
Can it draw emotional relationships like cutoff and conflict?
Can the AI build a genogram from my intake notes?
How do I put it in a case file or hand it in?
Can I make an ecomap as well as a genogram?
Build your genogram tonight
Open the free editor, no signup. Saving and exporting come with a 7-day trial, and if your program is set up for it, students get free access.