Early in the semester, we read Froma Walsh‘s chapter on family resilience. She identified key
processes involved in family resilience related to belief systems, organizational patterns, and
communication/problem solving. We have also read the story of Rick Bragg and his family. Think
about the Bragg family and your own family of origin. Write a paper of approximately 1218 doublespaced
typewritten pages that compares and contrasts the resiliency of the Bragg family and your
family of origin according to the key processes identified by Walsh. Draw a 3generation genogram
for the Bragg family and one for your own family during the period when you and Rick Bragg were in
early childhood, with Rick Bragg and yourself as the focal persons of the two genograms. Present the
genograms as appendices for the paper. In the paper, summarize any striking similarities and
differences between the two genograms. This paper will be due in hard copy form at the beginning of class.
As always, you should make use of any required course readings that can assist with analysis
throughout the paper. You should also support your analysis with sufficient details and examples
from the Bragg book. What you write will be held confidential and be returned to you or destroyed
after I have read it. You are to share no more about yourself or your family than you are comfortable
to share. The assignment will be graded for meeting the objectives of the assignment (10%),
accurate use of course concepts (10%), critical thinking (20%), focus (10%), support (10%),
organization (10%), style (20%), and mechanics (10%).
