Janice M. Bell, RN, PhD
Family Health & Healing
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Speaking Engagements
Recent Publications

Beliefs and Illness: A Model for Healing (available on Kindle)
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Journal of Family Nursing
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Dr. Bell's Reading List

Nurses and Families: A Guide to Family Assessment and Intervention
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Spirituality, Suffering, and Illness: Ideas for Healing
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Terrence Real: New Rules of Marriage
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The Tree of Knowledge: the Biological Roots of Human Understanding
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Recent Articles
- The Calgary Family Assessment Model: A True Story (Guest Blog by Dr. Lorraine M. Wright)
- Family Nursing: A Global Snapshot
- Family Externship workshop: A Life-Changing Moment
- Practice Units: Family Systems Perspective to Guide Practice with families experiencing illness
- 5 Hot Tips for Writing Therapeutic Letters
- Illness Beliefs Model – A new book
- Family-Focused Clinical Scholarship
- Top 10 Movies about Families and Illness Suffering
- Family Focused Practice: “Family” is a Misnomer
- My Story Starts Here…
Tag Archives: Calgary Family Intervention Model
Italian Student Asks About Family Nursing
Dear Dr. Bell: Nursing the family in Italy is not well developed, so our curriculum does not include a specific course on it. I read your Journal of Family Nursing editorial, “Family Nursing Education:”Higher, Faster, Stronger” and would like to know more about family nursing. I hope you can help me! Dear Andrea: Your interest in family [...]
Family Externship workshop: A Life-Changing Moment
Dr. Lorraine Wright and I (along with our colleagues Wendy Watson Nelson and Nancy Moules) have offered the Family Externship Workshop since 1987. I just had lunch with a nurse who completed the Externship workshop in 2001. She came to the workshop disillusioned with her nursing career and with well developed plans to leave nursing [...]
