Sister Callista Roy

The Roy Adaptation Model

Reporters
Shirnyl Hannah E. Magos
Ashley Jane O. Manalo
BSN I – TFN (C)
Sister Callista Roy’s
Background
• Born on October 14, 1939 in
Los Angeles, California
• Member of the Sister of St.
Joseph of Carondelet
• Received a bachelor’s degree
in nursing in 1963 from
Mount Saint Mary’s College
Sister Callista Roy’s
Background
• Earned her masters degree in
nursing on 1966 from the
University of California
• She received both a master’s
and doctorate degree in
sociology in 1973 and 1977
respectively from the
Sister Callista Roy’s
Background
• She was a pediatric staff
nurse
• She was a nurse theorist at
Boston College School of
Nursing
• A member of Sigma Theta
Tau, and received the
Sister Callista Roy’s
Background

• In 2007, she was honored as

a Living Legend by the
American Academy of
Nursing for her
extraordinary life
achievements
The Roy Adaptation
Model (1976)
The Adaptation Model

- Sees the individual as a set of

interrelated system who
strives to maintain balance
between these various stimuli
The Adaptation Model

- Focuses on the concept of

adaptation of the person
- Concepts of nursing, person,
health, and environment are
interrelated to this central
concept
The Adaptation Model

- The person continually

experiences environmental
stimuli
The Adaptation Model
The Adaptation Model
• Derived from a combination of
Harry Helson’s adaptation
theory and Rapoport’s definition
of system
Nursing Paradigms
Person, Environment, Health, and Nursing
NURSING
• Health care profession
that focuses on human life
processes and patterns and
emphasizes promotion of
health for individuals,
families, groups, and
NURSING

• The science and practice

that expands adaptive
abilities and enhances
person and environmental
transformation
NURSING

• Goal of nursing is the

promotion of adaption for
individuals and groups in
each of the
PERSON
• Persons are holistic adaptive
systems and the focus of
nursing
- persons are in constant
interaction with the
environment and exchange
information, matter, and energy
ENVIRONME
•NT
All the conditions,
circumstances, and influences
surrounding and affecting the
development and behavior of
persons or groups, with
particular consideration of the
mutuality of the person and
ENVIRONME
NT
• The source of stimuli that may
either threaten or promotes a
person’s existence
- for survival, the human
adaptive system must respond
positively to environmental
ENVIRONME
•NT
It is the changing environment
that stimulates a person to
make adaptive responses