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: Dr. Janice M. Bell
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 [...]
5 Hot Tips for Writing Therapeutic Letters
Therapeutic letters were first introduced to the world of clinical practice with families by the creative clinical work of David Epston of New Zealand and the late Michael White of Australia (Epston, 1994; White, 1995; White & Epston, 1990). My colleagues, students, and I have used this intervention in our practice with families experiencing serious [...]
