This document discusses using family mapping and portraiture as qualitative inquiry methods to illuminate family stories around addiction and shame. It provides examples of mapping family histories and relationships through interviews with individuals like Christine, Erik, and Jack to understand how addiction and mental health issues are intertwined within families over multiple generations. Resources on using these narrative techniques and on related topics like trauma, relationships, and addiction are also listed.

1. Family Mapping
Louise Stanger Ed.D, LCSW, CDWF, CIP

2. Objectives
Revisit Shame and How it
effects Ones Story
To Demonstrate How Addiction
and Shame are Intertwined
To Illustrate the Power of Story
Telling Through Family Mapping
To use Portraiture as Inquiry

11. Using Portraiture
Qualitative Inquiry as a way into Story

12. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

13. About Sarah Lawrence Lightfoot
Prize Winning Sociologist-McArthurAward
George Leider Prize for research Harvard
27 Honorary degrees from colleges and universities-novelists -9 award
winning books
The Emily Hargrove's Endowed Chair which upon her retirement
becomes Sara Lawrence Lightfoot chair making her the firstAfrican
American in Harvard's history to obtain that.
Full of grace and compassion

14. Who Am I ?
“I am the mirror who reflects back their pain, their fears their
voices. I am the inquirer who asks difficult questions, who searches
for evidence and patterns. I am the companion on the journey
bringing my own story to the encounter, making possible an
interpretive collaboration, I am the audience who listens , laughs ,
weeps an applauds. I am the spider women spinning their tales.. I
am the therapist who offers cathaersis support and challenge… I am
also the stage manager coordinating the intersection of three plays-
the story teller, the narrator and the readers inviting your voice to
the drama”

15. Talking With Strangers
Tell Me about yourself
Tell Me about your family
Tell me why your heart is
hurting
Tell me what is special about
your loved one
Tell me what you hope for

16. Let’s talk about Family
Substance Abuse
Mental Health-Anxiety Depression,
Personality, Bi-Polar- Schizophrenia
etc
Process Disorders- Love, Sex,
Shopping, Disordered Eating,
Digital,Money
Chronic Pain or Other Medical
Religion
Exercise -Too Much- Too Little

17. More Questions
Disordered Financial Life
Over and Under Spending
Shopping
Gambling
Workaholism
Financial Betrayal in
Relationships
Debting

18. More Questions for Bio-
Psycho-Social
Marriages/Divorces
Death
Pregnacies- Misscarriages, Still Births, Live
Births, SIDs
Geography- Moves
Gender preference-Sexual Identity
School
Legal
Community
LIFE IS MESSY

20. Feeling Carried or Denied Gift
Anger Rage
Stength-Energy,
Motivation
Fear Panic, Paranoia
Wisdom,
Protection
Pain Depression-Hopelessness
Healing,
Growth
Loneliness Isolation-Helplessness
Reaching
outward &
Inward

21. Feeling Carried or Denied Gift
Shame
Unworthy
Not Good Enough
Humility
I am Enough
Guilt Panic, Paranoia
Wisdom,
Protection
Embarrassment Stupid Competent
Joy Hysteria
Hope-Healing-
Spirtuality

23. Meet Christine
32 yo music executive
Opioids and disorder eating
Mother and Father
Brother Cooper

24. What Stands out?

26. Meet Erik
20 years old
Only son of high wealth
family 92 sisters)
Legal issues
SubstanceAbuse
Anxiety & Depression
ADHD

28. Eriks Family
Sisters-Bullying and
Depression
Mom -Family History of SA
Mom in Recovery
Dad Family History of SA
and then Mom said I have
something to share …………..

29. Erik’s mom
My brother died at age 38 he had HIV

31. Family Mapping Started
after first placement

32. Meet Jack and his family
54 yo old retired executive lives
with 29 yo son
Two previous treatment episodes
3 children 19, 22, 29
Wife in process of divorce
Being asked to leave treatment
center as wrong placement
Had to get him fromA -B

35. You are Ready?

36. Take Aways
Family Mapping is a way
into story
You need about 90 minutes
Paper and Colored pens
Life is messy
Qualitative inquiry works to
illuminate

37. Be Curious

40. Resources
Brown, Brene- Rising Strong . Speiegel & Grau International 2015 NYC NY
Brown, Brene, DaringGreatly. Gothom Books 2012
Lawrence Lightfoot,Sarah & Hoffman Jessica .TheArt and Science of
Portraiture. Joey Bass. 1997
LawrenceLightfoot, S. Respect , 1998. Press Books, Mass.
Lawrence, Lightfoot,S. I’ve Known Rivers , Penguin Publishing. Ny 1995
Lawrence, Lightfoot, S Growing Each Other Up, University of Chicago Press.
2016

41. Resources
Kopp, Sheldon- If You Meet The Buddah on the Road , Kill Him,
1982. Penguin House Random House, NY, NY
Stanger, Louise. Falling Up-A Memoir of Renewal 2015, WZY Press
Stanger,http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tricksters-addiction-
you_us_592f0f7ee4b0d80e3a8a329e
Stanger http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-are-the-
differences-between-trauma-addiction_us_58f4e7aee4b048372700da27
www.allaboutinterventions.com

42. More Resources
What’s Love Got to do with it -Boundaries and Relationships -Stanger Huffington
Post
The Sober World- Grandmother I have Something to Tell You, Stanger& Porter
The Sober World-Parents and Teens in the Midst of an Opioid Crisis, Holomback&
Stanger
The Sober World: Parents , Teens, Marijuana , Stanger & Porter
Recovery Campus-Freshman 101, Stanger& Porter
Recovery Campus-Adulting It’s Hard to do , Stanger& Porter
All articles and more are available on http:www.allaboutinterventions.com