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Sister Callista Roy
1939 to present

Adaptation Model

Kenneth D. Phillips and Robin Harris

“God is intimately revealed in the diversity of creation and is the common destiny of creation;
persons use human creative abilities of awareness, enlightenment, and faith; and persons
are accountable for the process of deriving, sustaining, and transforming the universe”
(Roy, 2000, p. 127).

While working toward her master’s degree, Roy
Credentials and Background was challenged in a seminar with Dorothy E. Johnson
of the Theorist to develop a conceptual model for nursing. While
Sister Callista Roy, a member of the Sisters of Saint working as a pediatric staff nurse, Roy had noticed
Joseph of Carondelet, was born on October 14, 1939, the great resiliency of children and their ability to
in Los Angeles, California. She received a bachelor’s adapt in response to major physical and psychological
degree in nursing in 1963 from Mount Saint Mary’s changes. Roy was impressed by adaptation as an
College in Los Angeles and a master’s degree in nurs- appropriate conceptual framework for nursing. Roy
ing from the University of California, Los Angeles, in developed the basic concepts of the model while she
1966. After earning her nursing degrees, Roy began was a graduate student at the University of California,
her education in sociology, receiving both a master’s Los Angeles, from 1964 to 1966. Roy began opera-
degree in sociology in 1973 and a doctorate degree in tionalizing her model in 1968 when Mount Saint
sociology in 1977 from the University of California. Mary’s College adopted the adaptation framework as

Previous authors: Kenneth D. Phillips, Carolyn L. Blue, Karen M. Brubaker, Julia M. B. Fine, Martha J. Kirsch, Katherine R.
Papazian, Cynthia M. Riester, and Mary Ann Sobiech. The author wishes to express appreciation to Sister Callista Roy for
critiquing the chapter.

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