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The book Nurses and families: a guide to assessment and intervention in the family, translated to Portuguese, French, Japanese, Korean and Swedish languages , is known as the Calgary Model. The material covers the Family Nursing action aiming to improve clinical knowledge and service skills, with a focus on the family unit, in addition to providing updates on the topic. Published in 2012, is in its fifth edition, with 365 pages, having as organizers Canadian nurses Drs Lorraine M. Wright and Maureen Leahey. Both are professors at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada, and members of Canadian Nurses Association. Since the late 1980s, they have been developing and improving the Calgary Model, which has been well accepted and has been applied in many parts of the world.