Dr. Lorraine M Wright RN PhD

Dr. Wright is Professor Emeritus of Nursing, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. She is also an international speaker, author/blogger, and consultant in family nursing and family therapy. Dr Wright was the Director, Family Nursing Unit, University of Calgary for 20 years, a unique clinical and research unit for couples/families suffering with serious illness.

In presentations, she offers her practice based research and research based clinical practice in conjunction with learnings from paradigm families/paradigm moments of how best to assist families suffering with serious illness and to promote family healing.

Dr. Wright is the author of 12 books and numerous chapters and articles. Her most recent books are: Wright & Leahey’s Nurses and Families: A guide to family assessment and intervention (7th ed) (2019); and Suffering and Spirituality: The Path to Illness Healing (2017).

She has developed 4 clinicial practice models, specifically the Trinity Model (advanced practice) and co-developed the Illness Beliefs Model (advanced practice) and co-developed the Calgary Family Assessment and Intervention Models (generalist practice).

Dr Wright wrote/produced the educational DVDs “Therapeutic Conversations with Families: What’s Love Got to Do With it?”(2016) and “Spirituality, Suffering, and Illness: Conversations for Healing”(2007); and she has also co-produced 8 educational Family Nursing DVD’s.

Dr. Wright has received several honours and awards for her distinguished contributions and leadership in family nursing and family therapy. In 2020, she was awared the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award by the College and Association of Registered Nurses in Alberta, Canada. In 2013, she was awarded the distinguished Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in Canada. The American Family Therapy Academy presented Lorraine the Innovative Contribution to Family therapy Award in 2011. She has also been bestowed Honorary Doctorates from Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden, 2012 and the University of Montreal, Canada, 2008.

She has presented in some 30 countries. Dr. Wright resides in Calgary, Canada when not travelling the world. Her goal is to visit 100 countries to learn about the clinical practices with families experiencing illness suffering. The total is now 78 countries!

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