Connell School of Nursing

Sr. Callista Roy, PhD, RN, FAAN

professor & nurse theorist

Sr. Callista Roy

Office

Cushing Hall 336 F
callista.roy@bc.edu

Assistant to the Nurse Theorist
Emily Caskey   caskeye@bc.edu

educational history

  • Post Doc Fellow University of California, San Francisco
  • PhD University of California, Los Angeles
  • MA University of California, Los Angeles
  • MS University of California, Los Angeles
  • BA Mount Saint Mary's College

recent publications


Journal Articles
  • Roy, C. (2007). Update from the Future: Thinking of Theorist Sr. Callista Roy. Nursing Science Quarterly. 20(2), 113-116.
  • Chayput, P. & Roy, C. (2007). Psychometric testing of the Thai version of coping and adaption processing scale—short form (TCAPS-SF). Thai Journal of Nursing Council, 22(3), 29-39.
  • Roy, C. (2007). Update from the future: Thinking of Theorist Callista Roy. Nursing Science Quarterly, 20(2), 113-116.
  • Roy, C. (2007). The Roy Adaptation Model:  Historical and Philosoph-ical Foundations. In Maria Elisa Moreno, et al. (Eds.) Applicacion Del Model Adaptacion en el Ciclo Vital Humano, 2nd Edition. Chia, Columbia: Universidad de La Sabana.
  • Roy, Sr. C.& Jones, D. (Editors). (2007). Nursing knowledge development and clinical practice. New York: Springer.
  • Roy, C. & Lindendoll, N. (2006). Defining International Consensus on Mentorship in Doctoral Education. Journal of Research in Nursing, 11(4), 345-353.
  • Roy, C. (2003).  Reflections on Nursing Research and the Roy Adaptation Model.  Igaju-syoin Japanese Journal, 36(1), 7-11.
  • Whittemore, R. & Roy, C. (2002). Adapting to Diabetes Mellitus: A Theory Synthesis. Nursing Science Quarterly, 15(4), 311-317.

Books
  • Roy, C. & Jones, D. (2007). Nursing Knowledge Development and Clinical Practice. New York: Springer Publishing.
  • Roy, C. & Andrews, H. (1999). The Roy Adaptation Model, 2nd Ed. Stamford, CT: Appleton & Lange.
  • Boston Based Adaptation Research in Nursing Society. (1999). Roy Adaptation Model-Based Research: 25 Years of Contributions to Nursing Science. Indianapolis: Sigma Theta Tau International, Center Nursing Press.
  • Riehl, J.P. & Roy, C. (1980). Conceptual Models for Nursing practice (2nd ed.). New York: Appleton-Century Crofts.

Chapters, Proceedings & Other
  • Roy, C. & Zhan, L. (2006). Sister Callista Roy’s Adaptation Model and Its Applications. In Parker, M. (Ed). Nursing Theories and Nursing Practice, 2nd ed. Philadelphia: F.A. Davis, 268-280.
  • Morgillo-Freeman, S. & Roy, C. (2005). Cognitive Behavior Therapy and the Roy Adaptation Model: A Discussion of Theoretical Integration. In S.M. Freeman & A. Freeman (Eds.), Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Nursing Practice. New York: Springer Publishing Company, 3-27.
  • Roy, C. (2001). Alterations in Cognitive Processing. In C. Stewart-Amidei & J.A. Kunkel (Eds.), AAN’s Neuroscience Nursing: Human Responses to Neurologic Dysfunction, (2nd Ed.), Philadelphia, PA: W.B. Saunders Co.

Callista L. Roy, RN, PhD, is a Professor and Nurse Theorist at the William F. Connell School of Nursing at Boston College, where she teaches doctoral, master’s, and undergraduate students. Dr. Roy is best known for her work on the Roy adaptation model of nursing. Her current clinical research is an intervention study to involve families in cognitive recovery of patients with mild head injury. Her other scholarly work includes conceptualizing and measuring coping and developing the philosophical basis for the adaptation model and for the epistemology of nursing. Roy has numerous publications, including books and journal articles, on nursing theory and other professional topics. Her works have been translated into many languages all over the world. With her colleagues of the Roy Adaptation Association, she has critiqued and synthesized the first 230 research projects published in English based on her adaptation model. Dr. Roy also has delivered invited papers, lectures, and workshops throughout North America and 30 other countries over the past 30 years on topics related to nursing theory, research, curriculum, clinical practice, and professional trends for the future. She began her education at Mount Saint Mary’s College located in Los Angeles, the city where she was born. Dr. Roy has master’s degrees in pediatric nursing and sociology from the University of California at Los Angeles, where she also earned her PhD. She holds honorary doctorates from four other institutions. Her postdoctoral studies in neuroscience nursing were at the University of California at San Francisco.


research interests

Involving families in cognitive recovery of patients with mild head injury; nurse coaching as an intervention for patients after ambulatory surgery; conceptualizing and measuring coping; philosophical basis of adaptation nursing and distinction between veritivity and relativity; emerging nursing knowledge and practice outcomes