Family-Focused Tools
SCORE-15 Index of Family Functioning and Change
SCORE is a self-report measure of family functioning and has been proved to be a reliable and valid index of therapeutic change. It is usable in everyday practice; short, acceptable to clients and can be used across all applications of systemic family and couple therapy. It is able to track progress and outcomes, and is helpful to the therapeutic process when used interactively with the family. SCORE consists of 19 questions which take less than 10 minutes for family members to complete. It is free to use.
Family Adaptability and Cohesion Scale (FACES-IV) measures the dimensions of family cohesion and family flexibility using six scales. There are two balanced scales that assess balanced family cohesion and balanced family flexibility.
Family Genogram
A genogram is a tool for creating a visual display of the child or youth’s family tree (McGoldrick & Gerson, 1985). In family therapy, genograms are used to study and record relationship patterns between family members and the individual characteristics that make up these patterns that occur. A genogram will help family therapists make an appropriate assessment of the relationship patterns and where intervention may be needed to help the family reduce the problematic situation that brought them into therapy.
Family Sociogram
The sociogram is a graphic representation which serves to reveal and analyze the relationships of a person with their family, or to visualize the relationships within the family or of certain members of the family with their external environment such as health and education services, leisure time activities, work, friends or place in the extended family.