Which statement comparing genograms and ecomaps is true?

• A. Genograms show social and personal relationships with environment.
• B. Ecomaps graph family medical history.
• C. Genograms are graphical representation of a person's family, relationship, and medical history.
• D. Ecomaps are not used in social work.

Answer: (C)

Genograms map a person’s family structure and health history across generations, showing relationships, patterns, and potential genetic or familial risk factors. This makes them a tool for understanding how family dynamics and medical history interrelate over time. Ecomaps, on the other hand, chart a person’s external environment—connections to friends, neighbors, organizations, and community resources—and indicate the strength or stress of those ties, not family medical history. So the statement that genograms capture family, relationships, and medical history is correct. The other options misstate what each tool emphasizes: one describes external social networks rather than family history, another wrongly assigns medical history to an ecomap, and the last claims ecomaps aren’t used in social work.