Wendy L. Watson Nelson (born May 31, 1950)[1] is a Canadian-American marriage and family therapist, and professor.
[5] She started teaching at the U of C as an assistant professor on the nursing faculty in 1981,[5][6] and completed a Ph.D. in family therapy and gerontology there in 1984.
[5] In 1996, she co-authored Beliefs: The Heart of Healing in Families and Illness with Lorraine M. Wright and Janice M.
[6] Larry Mauksch, reviewing the book in Families, Systems, and Health, commended the extensive literature review and approachable prose, but criticized the book's method of identifying and analyzing moments of change in therapy as unscientific.
Mauksch wrote that the book "extended the application of narrative approaches beyond psychosocial problems to broader, biopsychosocial-spiritual contexts".
[5] Watson's work on the book and with the FNU is often cited as helping to develop the family systems nursing framework.