The Illness Beliefs Model

Abstract

This Special Issue about the Illness Beliefs Model (IBM; Wright & Bell, 2009) is a tribute to the power and potential for healing through therapeutic conversations between nurses and families experiencing illness. Although the IBM was first published almost 20 years ago (Wright, Watson, & Bell, 1996), it remains, to the best of our knowledge, the only known model for advanced practice in family nursing. Since 1996, the evidence has continued to accumulate for the value of systemic, family-focused care and the usefulness of relational, family-level interventions (

The effectivness of a strengths‐oriented therapeutic conversation intervention on perceived support, well‐being and burden among family caregivers in palliative home‐care

“…The FAM-SOTC intervention was first developed through a series of analyses from a national hospital family nursing implementation project in 2007-2011, which was a knowledge translation project (Svavarsdottir, 2008;Svavarsdottir & Gisladottir, 2019;Svavarsdottir et al, 2015). The clinical intervention was developed based on the Calgary Family Assessment (CFAM)/Intervention (CFIM) Models (Wright & Leahey, 2013), the Illness Beliefs Model (Bell & Wright, 2015;Wright & Bell, 2009), and the Resiliency Model (McCubbin, Thompson, & McCubbin, 1996). The CFAM and CFIM models (Wright & Leahey, 2013) were the theoretical frameworks that guided the further development of the FAM-SOTC intervention which is reported in this study.…”

Does a therapeutic conversation intervention in an acute paediatric setting make a difference for families of children with bronchiolitis caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)?

“…When offering clinical nursing interventions, it is important to support the family and insure that every member is given the opportunity to express their feelings and to talk about them. By offering a family this opportunity to communicate in an illness experience, we can lead them in the direction of positive growth in solving difficulties, thus promoting change within the family's belief system or in their cognition of the illness event (Wright & Leahey , Bell & Wright ).…”

As crenças dos enfermeiros relacionadas ao cuidado de recém-nascidos que morrem em UTI neonatal

“…A sociologia, a antropologia, a psicologia e até mesmo a espiritualidade nos garantem muitas "lentes" pelas quais podemos definir, explicar e descrever o significado de crenças. A definição que mais se adapta a este estudo é a biológica, que considera a crença como uma verdade de uma realidade particular, a qual influencia a estrutura e o funcionamento biológico, psicossocial e espiritual dos indivíduos (Bell, Wright, 2015).…”

“…Algumas crenças são internalizadas com mais recorrência do que outras, uma vez que o ser humano tende a aceitar apenas informações, ideias ou opiniões que confirmem seu ponto de vista. Trata-se de um comportamento muito evidente nas práticas relacionadas ao processo saúde-doença (Bell, Wright, 2015 (Bell, Wright, 2015).…”

“…Esse objetivo -advogar pelo melhor interesse dos recém-nascidos que está morrendo -é uma das experiências de enfermagem mais prevalentes durante os cuidados no fim de vida. Embora os enfermeiros deem importância à família durante esse momento, sua prioridade são as necessidades do recém-nascido (Gibson, Hofmeyer, Warland, 2018;Bell, Wright, 2015 (Menin, Pettenon, 2015).…”