ecomap

As we have all pondered what is happening to our environment, we have become much more familiar with the concept of an ecology, that is, the interrelationship of organisms with the environment. This has proved to be a concept worth exploring in a range of situations, and so we have the ecomap, a visual rendering of the relationships that an individual or a family have with the community in which they live.

An ecomap differs from a genogram which is a visual rendering of the structure of a family as shown by links between an individual and their contemporary relatives and their forebears.

The ecomap is a useful tool in social welfare management because it can make clear what support systems are working and what are not, and what might yet be explored.