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: families in health and illness
The Calgary Family Assessment Model: A True Story (Guest Blog by Dr. Lorraine M. Wright)
Greetings and thanks for dropping by to read this blog. I appreciate the invitation by Dr. Janice M. Bell to write a guest blog about the Calgary Family Assessment Model. But where do I begin? Once upon a time….! Well, how about if I start by telling you how old the model is. In 2009, [...]
Top 10 Movies about Families and Illness Suffering
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. I’ve found movies to be powerful learning experiences for my students and myself. Movies highlight family stories about the experience of illness, draw the viewer into the poignancy and loneliness of illness suffering, and model how family members and health care professionals respond to illness in [...]
