Roy Adaptation Model: Definitive Statement - Softcover

Roy & Andrews

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0838522726 ISBN 13: 9780838522721

Publisher: Pearson, 1991

Synopsis

For use in graduate and select undergraduate courses whose program utilizes the Roy Adaption Model.

This text provides the definitive statement of Roy's Model, which is used as a theoretical framework in nursing education and practice. It incorporates significant advances in the evolution of the model.

About this title

From the Back Cover

This  long-awaited new edition presents the latest advances in the Roy Adaptation Model, one of the most widely accepted nursing theories, in the words of the theorist herself, Sister Callista Roy.

Features

• Maintains the essential concepts of the model while explaining new developments;
• Places new developments in the context of contemporary issues of health care delivery
• Expands and clarifies the theoretical basis of each adaptive model
• Provides separate chapters for each adaptive mode at the group level
• Expands applications to practice, using case studies,  for each step of the nursing process 

 

New to this Edition

This edition incorporates significant changes in both content and organization.

• Adaptive mode chapters are reorganized.
• Compensatory process and compromised process chapters include new content.
• Material on adaptive processes of groups is presented in a separate section.
• The nursing process within each chapter is based on the theoretical content of each adaptive mode.
• Further explanation of Roy’s philosophical and scientific assumptions for the 21st century and the addition of cultural assumptions are new to this edition.

Synopsis

This work describes the current key concepts - the physiological, the self-concept, the role function and the interdependence modes - of the Roy Adaptation Model in an easy-to-follow format. The components associated with the four modes of behaviour form one chapter. Objective and key concepts are listed at the beginning of each chapter and questions and feedback at the end of each chapter to encourage self-assessment. Key concepts are enhanced with illustrations and examples from everyday life and exercises are also provided.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0838522726
• ISBN 13: 9780838522721
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 492