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Callista Roy

Books

Blueprint for Use of Nursing Models: Education, Research, Practice & Administration. Patricia Hinton walker & Betty Neuman, editors. National League for Nursing. 1996.

Specific Chapter: 4) The Roy Adaptation Model in Research: Rehabilitation Nursing

Callista Roy: An Adaptation Model. Louette R. Johnson Lutjens. Sage. 1991.

Contents: 1) Origin of the Model. 2) Assumptions of the Model. 3) Concepts of the Model. 4) Theory of Person as an Adaptive System. 5) Theory of Adaptive Modes. 6) Clinical Example. 7) Conclusion.

Case Studies in Nursing Theory. Patricia Winstead-Fry. National League for Nursing. 1986.

Specific Chapter: 4) The Roy Adaptation Model

Connections: Nursing Research, Theory, and Practice. Anne Young, Susan Gebhardt Taylor, and Katherine McLaughlin-Renpenning. Mosby. 2001.

Specific Chapter: 10) Modeling Nursing From an Adaptation Perspective: The Roy Adaptation Model

Contemporary Nursing Knowledge: Analysis and Evaluation of Nursing Models and Theories. Jacqueline Fawcett. 2nd edition. F.A. Davis. 2005.

Specific Chapter: 10) Roy's Adaptation Model

Differentiating Nursing Practice into the Twenty-First Century. American Academy of Nursing. 1990.

Specific Chapter: 4) Nursing Theories - A Basis for Differentiated Practice: Application of the Roy Adaptation Model in Nursing Practice

Foundations of Nursing Theory: Contributions of 12 Key Theorists. Sage. 1995.

Specific Chapter: 3) Callista Roy

Nursing Process: Application of Conceptual Models. Paula Christensen and Jane Kenney. Mosby. 1990.

Specific Chapter: 16) Nursing Process of the Family Client: Application of Friedman's and Roy's Models

Nursing Theories: The Base for Professional Nursing Practice. Julia George. Appleton & Lange. 2002.

Specific Chapter: 15) Callista Roy

Nursing Theories and Models: A Study and Learning Tool. Ruby Wesley. Springhouse. 1992.

Specific Chapter: 15) Roy's Adaptation Model

Nursing Theories and Nursing Practice. Marilyn Parker. F.A. Davis. 2001.

Specific Chapter: 18) The Roy Adaptation Model

Nursing Theorists and Their Work. Ann Marriner Tomey and Martha Raile Alligood. Mosby. 2002.

Specific Chapter: Sister Callista Roy: Adaptation Model

Nursing Theory: Utilization and Application. Martha Raile Alligood and Ann Marriner Tomey. Mosby. 2002.

Specific Chapter: 14) Roy's Adaptation Model in Nursing Practice

Patterns of Nursing Theories in Practice. Marilyn Parker. National League for Nursing Press. 1993.

Specific Chapter: 15) The Roy Adaptation Model: Theoretical Update and Knowledge for Practice. 16) Translating the Roy Adaptation Model into Practice and Research.

The Roy Adaptation Model. Sister Callista Roy and Heather Andrews. Appleton & Lange. 1999.

Roy Adaptation Model-Based Research: 25 Years of Contributions to Nursing Science. Boston Based Adaptation Research in Nursing Society (BBARNS). Center Nursing Press. 1999.

Theoretical Nursing: Development and Progress. Afaf Ibrahim Meleis. Lippincott. 1997.

Specific Chapter: Sister Callista Roy, pg. 291

Understanding the Work of Nurse Theorists: A Creative Begining. Kathleen Sitzman and Lisa Wright Eichelberger. Jones and Bartlett. 2004.

Specific Chapter: 13) Sister Callista Roy's Adaptation Model

Women's Health During and After Pregnancy: A Theory-Based Study of Adaptation to Change. Lorraine Tulman and Jacqueline Fawcett. Springer. 2003.

Videos

Callista Roy 'The Roy Adaptation Model of Nursing'. [1 video]. Athens, OH: Fuld Institute for Technology in Nursing Education, 1988. 44 minutes. (The Nurse Theorists--Portraits of Excellence series).

Synopsis: Adaptation to constantly changing environmental stimuli; managing the stimuli in order to promote adaptive or positive responses in the physiological, self-concept, role function, and interdependence modes of adaptation.

Journal Articles

Dynamics of nutritional health in a community sample of American elders: A multidimensional approach using Roy adaptation model. Chen CCH. Chang CK. Chyun DA. McCorkle R. Advances in Nursing Science. 28(4): 376-389, 2005 Oct.-Dec.

Using the Roy adaptation model: A program of research in a military nursing research service. Watson J. Nursing Science Quarterly. 18(4): 321-323, 2005 Oct.

Testing a middle-range theoretical model of adaptation to chronic pain. Dunn KS. Nursing Science Quarterly. 18(2): 146-156, 2005 Apr

A dialogue about two nursing science traditions: The Roy adaptation model and thehuman becoming theory. Dobratz MC and Pilkington FB. Nursing Science Quarterly. 17(4): 301-307, 2004 Oct.

Life-closing spirituality and the philosophic assumptions of the Roy adaptation model. Dobratz MC. Nursing Science Quarterly. 17(4): 335-338, 2004 Oct.

Toward a middle-range theory of adaptation to chronic pain. Dunn KS. Nursing Science Quarterly. 17(1): 78-84, 2004 Jan.

Conceptual models of nursing: International in scope and substance? The case of the Roy adaptation model. Fawcett J. Nursing Science Quarterly. 16(4): 315-318, 2003 Oct.

Using Roy's adaptation model when caring for a group of young women contemplating quitting smoking. Villareal E. Public Health Nursing. 20(5): 377-384, 2003 Sept./Oct.

Psychological distress: Testing hypotheses based on Roy's adaptation model. Yeh CH. Nursing Science Quarterly. 16(3): 255-263, 2003 July.

A middle-range theory of caregiver stress. Tsai P. Nursing Science Quarterly. 16(2): 137-145, 2003 Apr.

Adapting to diabetes mellitus: A theory synthesis. Whittemore R. Roy C. Nursing Science Quarterly. 15(4): 311-317, 2002 Oct.

The nurse theorists: 21st-century updates--Callista Roy. Fawcett J. Nursing Science Quarterly. 15(4): 308-310, 2002 Oct.

Living with multiple sclerosis: A Roy adaptation model-based study. Gagliardi BA. Frederickson K. Shanley DA. Nursing Science Quarterly. 15(3): 230-236, 2002 Jul.

Application of Roy's adaptation model when caring for a group of women coping with menopause. Cunningham DA. Journal of Community Health Nursing. 19(1): 49-60, 2002 Spring.

Exploring the management of bone metastasis according to the Roy adaptation model. Terri M. Elise G. Mildred OK. Oncology Nursing Forum. 28(7): 1173-1181, 2001 Aug.

Adaptation in children with cancer: Research with Roy's model. Chao-Hsing Y. Nursing Science Quarterly. 14(2): 141-147, 2001 Apr.

Roy adaptation model and perspectives on the family. Hanna DR. Roy C. Nursing Science Quarterly. 14(1): 9-13, 2001 January.

Cognitive adaptation and self-consistency in hearing-impaired older persons: testing Roy's adaptation model. Zhan L. Nursing Science Quarterly. 13(2):158-65, 2000 Apr.

Are nursing theories holistic? Hancock B. Nursing Standard. 14(17):37-41, 2000 Jan 12-18.

Research issues. Nursing knowledge development through research: using the Roy adaptation model... including commentary by Malinski VM. Frederickson K. Nursing Science Quarterly. 13(1):12-7, 2000 Jan.

Community health nursing practice and the Roy adaptation model. Dixon EL. Public Health Nursing. 16(4):290-300, 1999 Aug.

Adult/elderly care nursing. Pre-amputation assessment using Roy's adaptation model. Dawson S. British Journal of Nursing. 7(9):536, 538-42, 1998 May 14-27.

The concept of spirituality in nursing theories: differing world-views and extent of focus. Martsolf DS. Mickley JR. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 27(2):294-303, 1998 Feb.

Future of the Roy model: challenge to redefine adaptation. Roy C. Nursing Science Quarterly. 10(1):42-8, 1997 Spring.

Nursing theory -- guided practice. Frederickson K. Nursing Science Quarterly. 10(1):53-8, 1997 Spring.

Responses to caregiving: a reconceptualization using the Roy adaptation model. Newman DML. Holistic Nursing Practice. 12(1):80-8, 1997 Oct

The Roy adaptation theory and multicultural nursing. Morgan MG. Journal of Multicultural Nursing & Health. 3(3):10-4, 1997 Fall.

The Roy adaptation model: a consideration of its properties as a conceptual framework for an intervention study. Tolson D. McIntosh J. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 24(5):981-7, 1996 Nov.

Preliminary testing of a proposition from the Roy adaption [sic] model. Hamner JB. Image - the Journal of Nursing Scholarship. 28(3):215-20, 1996 Fall.

Loneliness, social support and depression as interactive variables with cognitive status: testing Roy's model. Ryan MC. Nursing Science Quarterly. 9(3):107-14, 1996 Fall.

Using Roy's adaptation model in practice: nurses' perspectives. Weiss ME. Hastings WJ. Nursing Science Quarterly. 7(2):80-6, 1994 Summer.

Patient adaptation to technology: an application of the Roy model to nursingresearch. Journal of the New York State Nurses Association. 24(2):22-7, 1993 Jun.

Using a nursing model to manage symptoms: anxiety and the Roy adaptation model. Frederickson K. Holistic Nursing Practice. 7(2):36-43, 1993 Jan.

The Roy adaptation model and care of persons with Alzheimer's disease. Thornbury JM. King LD. Nursing Science Quarterly. 5(3):129-33, 1992 Fall

One method for comparing different nursing models. Sohn KS. Nursing & Health Care. 12(8):410-3, 1991 Oct.

Strengthening the Roy adaptation model through conceptual clarification: commentary and response. Artinian NT. Nursing Science Quarterly. 3(2):60-4, 1990 Summer

Theoretical approaches in nursing practice: a comparison of Roy and Parse. Mitchell GJ. Pilkington B. Nursing Science Quarterly. 3(2):81-7, 1990 Summer.

Building a programme of research from the Roy adaptation model of nursing. Fawcett J. Tulman L. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 15(6):720-5, 1990 Jun.

The Roy adaptation model: are nursing diagnoses amenable to independent nurse functions? Logan M. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 15(4):468-70, 1990 Apr.

Roy's adaptation model in practice. Smith MC. Nursing Science Quarterly. 1(3):97-8, 1988 Aug.

A comparison of three models of nursing. Chavasse JM. Nurse Education Today. 7(4):177-86, 1987 Aug.

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